Brandi Carlile ‘s homecoming is here. The musician will release her eighth studio album Returning to Myself , her first solo LP in four years, on Oct. 24.
“I’m not my favorite person to spend my time with,” Carlile said in a statement about the LP. “Returning to myself is not just a lonely, but a painfully boring thing to do. So much so that I’m actually not at all interested in doing it.” Still, the record’s title track, out now with an accompanying music video directed by Floria Sigismondi, settles into an expanse of solitude.
Carlile created Returning to Myself with Andrew Watt, Aaron Dessner, and Justin Vernon. Her bandmates Phil and Tim Hanseroth, SistaStrings, Josh Klinghoffer, Chad Smith, Matt Chamberlain, Dave Mackay, Rob Moose, Blake Mills, Mark Isham, and Stewart Cole also