Listen To Womb's New Album 'One Is Always Heading Somewhere'

When Womb played their magnificent live-to-air set for The NTS Breakfast Show a fortnight ago, Cello Forrester and Georgette Brown — third sibling member Haz Forrester was in another city that day — revealed their new album is conceived to be the closing chapter of a trilogy: "In my mind I've thought the first album (Like Splitting the Head From the Body) is about the past, the second album (Dreaming of the Future Again) is about the future, and this one's about the present." Out today via Flying Nun Records, the twelve works included on One Is Always Heading Somewhere indeed feel immediate and crystalline in their lyrical / sonic imagery, defying conventions of gossamer-like dream-pop ethereality with an almost palpable emotiveness.

Cello Forrester's voice sounds notably strong throughout, carrying listeners through carefully sculpted passages of scene-setting synths / samples, often rustic strings and pleasingly crunchy percussion. Ōtautahi's Ben Woods joins the family band on duet 'Take', Cello reflects "How I do keep my head above the surface / I'd rather live like I'm untethered to this earth" in poetic standout 'Erosion', 'Unto' strips the trio's palette back to minimal balladry, 'Just Like Waves' moves with Badalamenti-like style and grace, and the group achieve soul-blasting crescendos on the title track and recent single 'Only You'. An album to spend time with and lose time within, One Is Always Heading Somewhere feels like a triumph for Womb, as they close one book to open another. Listen below, order the clear vinyl LP edition HERE and go catch them on tour this month and next...

"These twelve songs are a collection of moments throughout a span of time in our lives – the oldest song [Erosion] written ten years ago. Because these songs are often diaristic in nature, having self-recorded nearly everything at the various homes we’ve lived in feels very special – I can hear the creak of my old chair, the sound of cars going by on the street I used to live on, the tap of the space bar on my laptop as I finish recording." – Cello Forrester

Womb – Album Release Tour – NZ/AUS

Friday 28th March – Te Rore Community Hall, Ngāhinapōuri w/ Big Sigh*
Saturday 29th March – Double Whammy, Tāmaki Makaurau w/ Hun Lynch*
Saturday 5th April – Meow, Te Whanganui-a-Tara w/ Juniper May
Friday 11th April – Space Academy, Ōtautahi w/ Mona Vasa*
Saturday 26th April – The Curtin, Naarm (AUS) w/ Pastures, Japes

*Tickets on sale HERE via UTR

'One Is Always Heading Somewhere' is out today via Flying Nun Records — order the clear vinyl LP edition HERE.