HALF WAIF - LAVENDER VINYL (LP)

Release Date: 27th April 2018

The former full-time member of Pinegrove, Nandi Rose Plunkett, steps out as an incredible singer-songwriter in her own right with an emotional record of indie and synth-pop moments. Having toured as support for the likes of Julien Baker, Iron & Wine, Mitski and Land of Talk, Half Waif are set to explode this year with this record which is an example of intelligent, emotive pop songs!

FFO: Pinegrove, Japanese Breakfast, Lydia Ainsworth, Braids

"Half Waif began in 2012 as a vehicle for the thoughts, stories and songs of Nandi Rose Plunkett. Since then, alongside bandmates Adan Carlo and Zack Levine, Half Waif have self-released two EPs and two albums, before joining the Cascine family in 2017 to release their widely acclaimed form/a EP. Half Waif spent the bulk of the year on near-constant tour supporting Julien Baker, Iron & Wine, Mitski and Land of Talk, while also headlining runs in America and Europe. 2018 will see Half Waif release their newest album, Lavender. Nandi shared the following about the record: "Lavender is so named for my grandmother Asha – a nod to the lavender she would pluck from her garden and boil in a pot on the stove. The first time I noticed her doing this, it struck me as a kind of magic: the small black cauldron bubbling with a piece of the earth. She did it to make the house smell good. I believe it was also a ritual of purification, clearing out any shadows that may have tried to creep into the old English home she’d lived in, alone, for fifty years. When I wrote and recorded Lavender, my grandmother was alive, and though she wasn’t ill at the time of her sudden death in September, it was obvious her life – after 95 years – was drawing to a close. As a result, themes of aging and collapse are all over this album. It is an elegy to time, the pilgrimages we take, and the ultimate slow plod towards our end. It is an examination of the way we fracture, inside ourselves and inside our relationships – the fissures that creep along the structures we build, the tendency towards disintegration. We face many endings in our lives, on the path toward that unfathomable yet omnipresent ultimate Ending. Break-ups and divorces, marriages and the estrangement of the self, hard times and bittersweet relief, steep precipices that rise up beyond our control over and over again. These endings are markers of time and growth, small personal apocalypses that pockmark our days. And yet there is more to come when the terror subsides; even the night itself – that great darkness – must end and give way to new light. Lavender is a talisman to hold in the midst of that uncertainty, to heal and remind ourselves that it’s not over. It’s not ending yet." Half Waif’s Lavender was co-produced by David Tolomei and mastered by Heba Kadry."