Brandi Carlile Slates New Album ‘Returning To Myself’ For October

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Brandi Carlile is set to release her new album, Returning To Myself, on Oct. 24 on Interscope Records/Lost Highway. The album’s title track is out now along with an accompanying video.

The 11x Grammy-winner is looking inward, reflecting back, and ultimately, returning home on the new 10-song project, which was produced by Carlile, Andrew Watt, Aaron Dessner, and Justin Vernon. The album features her longtime bandmates Phil and Tim Hanseroth and SistaStrings (Monique and Chauntee Ross), as well as Josh Klinghoffer, Chad Smith, Matt Chamberlain, Dave Mackay, Rob Moose, Blake Mills, Mark Isham and Stewart Cole.

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“I’m not my favorite person to spend my time with. Returning to myself is not just a lonely, but a painfully boring thing to do,” shares Carlile about the new project. “So much so that I’m actually not at all interested in doing it. I prefer to double, triple, and quadruple down on co-dependency, which I’ve come to learn that outside of 12-Step programs and junior high school relationships, isn’t really that unhealthy at all…

“For me the key to learning to ‘be alone’ is not being alone at all. It’s being alone in a crowded room. It’s hearing an unexpected doorbell ring and wondering who has shown up to watch me read my book and bite my nails all day. That a guest can be a deep lean-in over a cheap bottle of wine or simply an eyebrow raise and a gesture toward the refrigerator while I play Zelda…where I totally choose myself with someone so close to me I can hear them relax.  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…”

Carlile and her band will perform three sold-out nights at Colorado’s legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre this weekend.

Returning To Myself Track List:
1. “Returning To Myself” (Brandi Carlile)
2. “Human” (Brandi Carlile, Phil Hanseroth, Tim Hanseroth, Andrew Watt)
3. “A Woman Oversees” (Brandi Carlile)
4. “A War With Time” (Brandi Carlile, Aaron Dessner)
5. “Anniversary” (Brandi Carlile)
6. “Church & State” (Brandi Carlile, Tim Hanseroth, Phil Hanseroth, Andrew Watt)
7. “Joni” (Brandi Carlile)
8. “You Without Me” (Brandi Carlile, Elton John, Andrew Watt, Bernie Taupin)
9. “No One Knows Us” (Brandi Carlile, Aaron Dessner)
10. “A Long Goodbye” (Brandi Carlile, Tim Hanseroth, Phil Hanseroth, Andrew Watt)

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