Half Waif has announced a new EP, Ephemeral Being, due out on May 31 via ANTI-. She recorded it during winter 2021 and the following spring, and according to a press release it’s “the first offering in a larger body of work coming later this year.” See the cover art and tracklist below.
The first single is “Big Dipper,” which Half Waif says is “a song about looking for answers, and finding none, and looking again. It was written at a time when I was feeling very stuck in my body and overwhelmed by compounding griefs. I was inspired by the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, who had just passed away, and his idea of continuation–how we are not bound by our forms. We continue on. ‘This body is not me,’ he said. ‘So laugh with me, hold my hand, let us say good-bye, say good-bye to meet again soon.’”
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HALF WAIF – EPHEMERAL BEING TRACKLIST
1. Service
2. Big Dipper
3. Heartwood
4. Ephemeral Being
5. Dreaming of Bears