M. Ward - To Go Home - CD5 MAXI-SINGLE

COMMON REACTION is the debut album from electro-pop duo Uh Huh Her, the L.A.-based musical pair consisting of singer/producer/multi-instrumentalist Camila Grey and musician/actress Leisha Hailey. With this album they have crafted an exciting and seamless modern rock disc. Perfected with the able hands of producer Al Clay (Pixies, Blur, Pink), this eleven song offering captivates the listener from the opening notes of it's pulsing debut single InchNot a Love SongInch and effortlessly charms it's way through to the evocative piano-touched finale, InchDreamer.Inch

It was in winter 18/19 - I flew to Montreal to meet with Tim Kingsbury, Richard Reed Parry, Craig Silvey and Teddy Impakt at Le Studio Du Arcade Fire. It was a fine time with a dream team in a city I love. Winter in beautiful Quebec. Les semaines les plus froides de ma vie. I had a bunch of demos that were inspired by migration stories I had heard from friends or read in newspapers while on tour in Europe and North America. I remember being struck by the similarities of the stories I heard from both continents and how really only the names of the powerful and the powerless had changed - thinking, Is this the future? Is this our future?InchSome time went by, the stories wove together and I remember them now closer to characters in a dream of how people could treat each other than any kind of front-page news realism. I think music subconsciously - whether writing or listening - is a filter for me - helping to process all the bad news into something new to build from - some records to me are like self-fulfilling prophecies - visualizing change to wish something into being - those records inspired this one.Inch - M. Ward

The fifth M. Ward album and his most absorbing yet. It's songs unravel their world-wearied tales of life, love, and human with an innate and special grace, helped in part by the very talented friends who join him on this record, such as Neko Case and Mike Mogis, as well as old InchMonsters of FolkInch touring buddy Jim James (My Morning Jacket). Look for him on tour this fall.