Brandi Carlile will release Returning to Myself on October 24 through Interscope Records/Lost Highway, with pre-orders currently available. The title track and its music video, directed by Floria Sigismondi, serve as the preview. The album was co-produced by Carlile alongside Andrew Watt, Aaron Dessner, and Justin Vernon. Featured contributors include longtime collaborators Phil and Tim Hanseroth, SistaStrings, Josh Klinghoffer, Chad Smith, Matt Chamberlain, Dave Mackay, Rob Moose, Blake Mills, Mark Isham, and Stewart Cole. Carlile frames solitude as being alone in a crowded room, favors co-dependency over isolation, and explores inward reflection on the lead single.
In a press statement, Carlile said she finds spending time with herself "not just a lonely, but a painfully boring thing to do," instead preferring to "double, triple, and quadruple down on co-dependency," which she believes "isn't really that unhealthy" except for "12-step programs and junior high school relationships."
As such, Carlile says her definition of learning to "be alone" is actually "being alone in a crowded room." She continued, "People want to be together in silence more than we allow in our time. It's falling deeply in love with the car wheels on a gravel road. The possibility of the visitor. The 'not being alone-ness' of it all..."
On that note, the lead single, "Returning to Myself," describes Carlile's turn toward introspection, as she sings, "Is it evolving, turning inward?/ Oh, what an easy way to be/ Only kneeling at the altar of/ The great and mighty me."
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