NATALIE MERCHANT – Keep Your Courage Vinyl

Description

Nonesuch Records will release Natalie Merchant’s Keep Your Courage, her ninth solo studio album and first of new material since 2014’s self-titled record, on April 14, 2023. An eclectic album, produced by Merchant, it features two duets sung with vocalist Abena Koomson-Davis (Resistance Revival Chorus), contributions from the Celtic folk group Lúnasa and Syrian virtuoso clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, and horn arrangements by jazz trombonist Steve Davis. There are lush orchestrations throughout by seven composers including: Gabriel Kahane, Stephen Barber, Colin Jacobson, and Megan Gould. Keep Your Courage comprises nine original songs by Merchant as well as an interpretation of “Hunting the Wren” by Ian Lynch of the Irish band Lankum. The vinyl LP edition of Keep Your Courage includes four bonus tracks from earlier albums, previously unreleased on vinyl.

Tracklist:

1. LP

Big Girls
Come On, Aphrodite
Sister Tilly
Narcissus
Hunting the Wren
Guardian Angel
Eye of the Storm

Tower of Babel
Song of Himself
The Feast of Saint Valentine
Spring and Fall: to a Young Child (Bonus Track)
Butterfly (Bonus Track)
Giving Up Everything (Bonus Track)
Frozen Charlotte (Bonus Track)