M. Ward has released his Migration Stories album today – have a listen on New Music Friday below.
“Some time went by, the stories wove together and I remember them now closer to characters in a dream of how people could treat each other than any kind of front-page news realism,” he’s said of the album. “I think music subconsciously – whether writing or listening – is a filter for me. Helping to process all the bad news into something new to build from. Some records to me are like self-fulfilling prophecies – visualizing change to wish something into being. Those records inspired this one.”
This is the prolific writer and producer’s tenth album, and for it he headed to Quebec, Canada where he worked with Arcade Fire’s Tim Kingsbury, Richard Reed Parry, as well as the band’s producer/mixer Craig Silvey.