Lawrence Rothman recently dropped “A Word’s A Weapon,” the track is accompanied by A music video for the single, directed by Joanna Carter. “A Word’s A Weapon,” is off Rothman’s forthcoming album, Here Lies Love / Sawdust to Stardust, available September 25 via KRO Records. The song follows previously shared single, “The Meaning.” This fall, Rothman will tour across North America, starting September 23 in St. Louis, MO, the tour will include stops in Chicago, Nashville, New Orleans and more.

Says Rothman: “A Word’s A Weapon” explores collective human pain, illustrating how fear, division and unresolved wounds become cycles of destruction. Rothman shares: “Before we build the weapon, we imagine it. Before we draw the border, we name who belongs on either side. Words are invisible, but they have always carried the weight of stones, bullets, and fire. They can turn fear into hatred and hatred into history. But language is also where forgiveness begins. The same mouth that condemns can confess; the same voice that divides can call someone home. Maybe the fate of the world has always rested, in part, on what we choose to say to one another.”

Here Lies Love / Sawdust to Stardust was written and recorded in Biarritz, France, and Nashville, Tennessee. Produced and mixed entirely by Rothman, the album features contributions from Amanda Shires, Katie Pruitt, Jillian Jacqueline and others The new LP completes a trilogy that began with Good Morning, America (2021) and continued with The Plow That Broke the Plains (2024)—three albums conceived as a single, continuous body of work. The series was born out of the pandemic period, when a collaboration with Lucinda Williams pulled Rothman back to their roots in Nashville.

Rothman is a singer-songwriter, producer and collaborator, and has worked with Angel Olsen, Lucinda Williams, MUNA, Blondshell, Amanda Shires, Kim Gordon and Margo Price, helping shape records that transform personal vulnerability into powerful art, and drawing inspiration from those same artists in their own growth as a confessional songwriter.

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