30 January 2025 - 0 Comments

Sibling trio Womb have released Angels, the third single from their upcoming third album One Is Always Heading Somewhere, to be released on March 14th. The album will be available digitally and on clear vinyl LP via Flying Nun Records.

Listen Here

Angels is the first song the band wrote for the new album, with the chorus echoing the themes of their previous record: "I was dreaming about the future / I forgot about the present." Written during the pandemic, Cello began the lyrics while battling Covid, and Haz shaped much of the song’s sonic texture while living in a cottage in Whanganui. Georgette recorded the drums with Bevan Smith at Circle Blue Studios, where the band also recorded their second album.

The song explores the tension between reality and dreams, capturing the feeling of coming back down to earth. The accompanying music video was created by visual artist Angel C. Fitzgerald.

In addition to their new single, Womb is excited to announce the One Is Always Heading Somewhere album tour, with special guest appearances at each show. The following NZ and AUS tour dates have been confirmed:

One Is Always Heading Somewhere Album Tour
28 March – Te Rore Community Hall, Ngāhinapōuri – with Big Sigh +
29 March – Double Whammy, Tāmaki Makaurau – with Hun Lynch +
5 April – Meow, Te Whanganui-a-Tara – with Juniper May *
11 April – Space Academy, Ōtautahi – with Mona Vasa +
26 April – The Curtin, Naarm (AUS) – support act TBC

+ Tickets on sale from Undertheradar
* Tickets on sale from Flicket

One Is Always Heading Somewhere is Womb’s third album, recorded throughout 2023 and 2024, between living rooms and bedrooms of various houses across the country – from the trio’s hometown of Te Whanganui-a-Tara to their new homes of Whanganui, Whakatū, and Tāmaki Makaurau. Additional recording was done at their dear friend Bevan Smith’s backyard studio, Circle Blue Studios, with mixing done with their new collaborator De Stevens at Roundhead Studios.

“One is always heading somewhere” are words that arose after reading a poem by Ocean Vuong, 'Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong' – the lines go: “The most beautiful part of your body / is where it’s headed. and remember, / loneliness is still time spent / with the world.”

The album builds musically from where their previous albums – Like Splitting the Head from the Body and Dreaming of the Future Again – left off. While still harbouring their signature emotive and ethereal sound, Womb’s third album sees the three moving toward a more refined style. The arrangements are layered and warm, where Georgette's driving drums are met with percussive samples, Haz’s cinematic synths swirl and rise, and Cello’s textured strings stretch across the tracks. There are also sparser moments that draw you to Cello’s direct and often melancholic vocal delivery.

Lyrically, the songs trace moments across the two years recording the album, drawing on the repeated imagery that characterises Cello’s days: of driving, of dreaming, of light on water, or in the sky. Each song is both personal and allegorical, diaristic and metaphoric – each looking at connection and the things we are tethered to.

“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

The album art is a photograph taken by Haz Forrester on a long bus ride through the top of Te Waipounamu. The image is overlain by four cut-out shapes drawn by Georgette, which reference similar shapes found in diaries kept by abstract artist Hilma af Klint.

Whilst forming in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa, music has always been central to the siblings’ relationship. In the flat cornfield suburbs of the American midwest, Georgette would share Limewire mp3s between the three. Before then their three older siblings would show them music when they lived in a Eucalyptus forest near Daylesford, Australia. After moving to Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa in their teenage years, the three grew alongside the music community they found there.

Since their inception, Womb have released their first self-titled Womb EP (Sonorous Circle, 2015), their debut album Like Splitting the Head from the Body (Arcade Recordings and Sonorous Circle, 2018), a second EP, Holding a Flame (Flying Nun Records, 2021), and their sophomore album, Dreaming of the Future Again (Flying Nun Records, 2022).

Womb have toured many times nationally around Aotearoa New Zealand, as well as taking their sound abroad to Hobart’s Hobienalle in 2019, and touring mainland China in 2019 with friend and booking manager Kristen Ng / Kiwese / Kaishandao. They have shared stages with various artist including Marlon Williams, The Phoenix Foundation, The Bats, Alok Vaid-Menon and Georgia Gets By (Broods).

Cello, Haz, and Georgette are all Cancer risings.

Photo Credit: Ted Black

Comments

Return to News Archive