Visual artist, writer, songwriter, and musicianShana Cleveland(La Luz) has announced the forthcoming release of a new solo album,Manzanita, onMarch 10viaHardly Art Records. Today she shares the first peak of the LP via the orchestral pop single “Faces in the Firelight.” The song is addressed to both her son (written while he was in utero) and her life partner Will Sprott (Shannon and the Clams) “The song is about watching Will tend to a huge burn pile that was still going long after dark and realizing that out there in the dark field he looked like the ultrasound image we had on our fridge,” she says. “I was thinking that the greatest act of love might be to wait for someone. To say, ‘I’ll be here whenever you’re done, whenever you’re ready.’”
You can now hear DAGR and Cherry Glazerr’s “Texas,” the Los Angeles-based acts’ collaboration and contribution to the Hardly Art 15th Anniversary Singles Series.
You can now watch Midwife’s “Sickworld,” the official video for her new song and contribution to Hardly Art’s 15th Anniversary Singles Series. The video was directed by Xadie James.