Brandi Carlile’s New Deluxe LP ‘Returning To Myself (Sad Gay Version)’ Due In September

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Brandi Carlile is releasing Returning To Myself (Sad Gay Version), digitally on Sept. 25 via Interscope Records/Lost Highway, an expanded version of her acclaimed album Returning To Myself.

Ahead of the release, Carlile has released “Human (Sad Gay Version)” featuring composer and electronic musician Jon Hopkins, today. Returning To Myself (Sad Gay Version) features intimate reimagined versions of all ten tracks from the original album, with Carlile going back into the studio to co-produce four tracks with Aaron Dessner. The collection includes a new version of Billy Joel’s “And So It Goes” exclusively on streaming.

“When I was a teenager, I loved to toy with my own emotions by actively seeking out songs in a genre that very few are willing to call by its rightful name. The ‘Sad Gay’ genre. You don’t have to actually be gay to let it break your heart into a thousand pieces, it will do that against your will. I would sit at the edge of my bed and listen to ‘Everybody Hurts’ by R.E.M., ‘Language Or the Kiss’ by the Indigo Girls, or watch Sinead O’ Connor singing ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ while that single black and white tear ran down her face. I would do this just to feel myself spiral into pure emotional self-indulgence in ways only music like this could permit, making me a very sad gay.

“Returning To Myself has been such a profound journey,” she continues. “It’s taken me to places I never imagined and taught me a lot about my disdain for the solitary, as well as my own ridiculous pattern of self-avoidance. Long may it continue. I reimagined this album in this way because I want to be brought back to the edge of my bed again and I want to bring you with me. I rebuilt the whole thing for you and for myself. This one is for us… the sad gays wherever you are. This is Returning To Myself (Sad Gay Version)…”

Carlile kicked off the second leg of her extensive “The Human Tour” last night.

Returning to Myself (Sad Gay Version) Track List:
1. “Returning To Myself”
2. “Human”
3. “A Woman Oversees”
4. “A War With Time”
5. “Anniversary”
6. “Church & State”
7. “Joni”
8. “You Without Me”
9. “No One Knows Us”
10. “A Long Goodbye”
11. “Human (feat. Jon Hopkins) (Sad Gay Version)”
12. “Returning To Myself (Sad Gay Version)”
13. “You Without Me (Sad Gay Version)”
14. “No One Knows Us (Sad Gay Version)”
15. “Anniversary (Sad Gay Version)”
16. “And So It Goes (Sad Gay Version)”
17. “A Woman Oversees (Sad Gay Version)”
18. “Church & State (Sad Gay Version)”
19. “A War With Time (Sad Gay Version)”
20. “Joni (Sad Gay Version)”
21. “A Long Goodbye (Sad Gay Version)”

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