V2 records news – Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – new album, "We Are Together Again"
‘BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY Announces New Album "We Are Together Again"
ALBUM OUT 6 MARCH 2025
FEBR 26 single 'hey little' Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Hey Little (Official Video)
Hey Little" was written years ago for someone else to sing. Now I am a father; the lyrics are realigned and rearranged. Catherine Irwin sings with great soul. I asked Ryder McNair to listen to Madonna's "Dear Jessie" for inspiration on the string arrangements. Brent Stewart and his daughter Maya brought a creative partnership to the video-making process. The shoot was seamless and joyful. Brent spoke of wanting to incorporate double-exposure (they shot on film) and I mentioned the Burt Lancaster film The Swimmer. Both Maya and Brent jumped on that idea with gusto, and friends here in Louisville let us film in their indoor pool in the dead of winter. Notable of course is Thomas Deakin's beautiful clarinet solo. And the real live goats.
JAN 26
FIRST SINGLE "THEY KEEP TRYING TO FIND YOU" IS OUT NOW
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - They Keep Trying To Find You (Official Video)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy – the persona/stage-name of musician Will Oldham - will release a new studio record titled We Are Together Again on March 6th via Domino/No Quarter. The follow-up to The Purple Bird, Oldham began working on this set before his Nashville-sojourn to record that album, and picked them up again last spring, taking these 10 songs into End of an Ear Studios in Louisville with his current tour mates Jacob Duncan (flute and saxophone) and Thomas Deakin (clarinet, whistle, baritone electric guitar, accordion, cornet), along with Ryder McNair, Chris Bush, Ned Oldham and Erin Hill.
Oldham notes: "This record was made closer to the Ohio River than any I've been involved with since 1993's Palace Brothers There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You. Louisville's current-and-past vital musical community is highlighted on every song. Catherine Irwin, who sang on the BPB release Ease Down the Road, is back here on "Hey Little" and "Vietnam Sunshine". Lacey Guthrie, Tory Fisher and Katie Peabody, the three front women of the band Duchess, sing together on the opening and closing songs, parallel odes to the beast that is fear."
However dimly we perceive it, we are living through a change of worlds. The one we were born into is slipping away, reshaped and denuded by human action. What remains is the question of what we will carry forward, and how we will refuse to surrender ourselves. We Are Together Again feels like an answer. In Oldham's songs - and in the circle of others gathered beneath the name Bonnie "Prince" Billy - friendship, community, and the stubborn joy of making art with others become a means of persistence. This isn't a denial of collapse, which would be delusion, but a kind of defiance: remaining fully human, fully joyful, in a world with a diminishing horizon.*
Jim Marlowe engineered the album sessions and co-produced it with Oldham. The first track to be shared from the record is "They Keep Trying To Find You" alongside a video produced by Jake Forman and choreographed and directed by Abi Elliott.
We Are Together Again doesn't resolve fear; it meets it with harmony. It's a record about the stubborn miracle of community, and about how, so long as there are voices asking together, the asking itself becomes hope.
Oldham's 2025 release The Purple Bird was an album of the year at MOJO, Uncut and Aquarium Drunkard while The Times called it, "a superb, warm, involving work."
Alongside the album announcement, a London outstore at St Giles' Church in Camberwell has been announced for later this month.
Tracklisting:
1. Why is the Lion?
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