HALF WAIF
- Shares new single "In August"
- New album, ‘The Caretaker’
out March 27th via ANTI- Records
- Live stream performance planned for release day

Half Waif (aka Nandi Rose) has shared "In August," the latest track from her new album, 'The Caretaker', out next Friday, March 27th via ANTI- Records.

Of the song, Rose says: "'In August' tracks the dissolution of a friendship over the course of a year, throughout every season. There's a particular kind of sadness to a friendship ending when there's no one to blame, just as there's something mournful about the inevitable change of weather. Sometimes it's not a big fight but a gradual growing apart that marks the end - how do we make sense of our role in that? This song is an attempt to recognize and accept mutual culpability in an effort to move on."

Listen to "In August":
https://youtu.be/tAtBYYB1U6o

Half Waif will be live broadcasting an intimate set from her home on March 27th at 11pm UK GMT / 12 Midnight CET. Details to come.

Over the course of eleven songs, on ‘The Caretaker’ Nandi Rose creates the lush world of a humid summer night, dreaming of and reaching for a season in which she is her "best self." Referring to the album's title, she says, "I kind of created a character. She's someone who has been entrusted with taking care of this estate, taking care of the land, and she's not doing a very good job. The weeds are growing everywhere, and she's not taking care of herself. "For Rose, the character of ‘The Caretaker’ serves as a warning of who she could become if she's not more vigilant, and the resulting album sees her grappling with her desire for independence and the knotty reality that we need each other.

‘The Caretaker’ follows critically acclaimed album ‘Lavender’, named for the lavender that once grew in her grandmother's garden. And on her most recent collection, Rose's family history and intergenerational stories continue to seep their way into the songs. "There's a family legacy of losing and seeking homes, a theme that has followed me," she reflects, pointing to her mother's journey as an Indian refugee from Uganda, and her grandmother's displacement from Lahore after the partition of India. Rose herself was raised surrounded by the Berkshire mountains in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and today she finds inspiration in the shock of seasons of the Hudson Valley where she currently resides.

‘The Caretaker’ will be released on March 27th via ANTI-. Pre-order at:
https://halfwaif.ffm.to/thecaretaker

‘The Caretaker’ track list:

1. Clouds Rest
2. Siren
3. Ordinary Talk
4. My Best Self
5. In August
6. Lapsing
7. Halogen 2
8. Blinking Light
9. Brace
10. Generation
11. Window Place

For more information please contact:
kate@stereosanctity.co.uk / t. +44 7812 607 230