Clara Mann has released “Oblivion”, the track is off the multi-artist’s forthcoming album Wishbone, available October 23rd via state51 and streaming services.

Clara Mann on “Oblivion:”

“Loving is accepting the light and the dark of something, or of someone – often when someone burns very bright, it’s matched by a great capacity for heaviness. Someone said to me, at a very heightened time in my life, that sometimes falling in love feels like looking into oblivion’. I went home and wrote the first verses of this song- and then I let it be for a few months, unable, at that point, to resolve it.

A few months down the line after falling in love, I looked back and realised that there must have been a time when I could have chosen a different path for myself, and for us, but I don’t know where that crossroads was, and I don’t recall ever actively making a decision. Love was an inevitability, in some sense, something I already knew was going to happen, from the very start. I finished the song that day.

“Oblivion” is about tossing a coin and realising, as it turns, that you’ve already made your decision.”

Wishbone was Produced by 4AD resident Fabian Prynn, the two of them built the album’s world together from Mann’s demos and voice notes across a handful of intense, sometimes 14-hour long days at Norfolk’s Bam Bam Studios. “I was so not used to hearing my music expanded like this,” laughs Mann, recalling the first time she heard Prynn’s drums across the tracks. “The purest expression of a lot of this music, as I had experienced it, had always been me alone in a big hall.” But allowing in players she barely knew for the first time – Prynn joined by guitarist Kit Mosely, double bass player Marianne Schofield, alongside trusted friends Owen Spafford on viola, Martin Egidi on cello and Tennessee Woodiel on banjo – the songs became even more recognisable and alive to her. The abstract she was chasing was to make the album shimmer without dilution; to make it beautiful and bright but with a grounding intention, achieved best, it transpired, when she didn’t have to carry the weight of the songs alone.

Clara Mann
Wishbone
tracklist
State51

1. Fortuna
2. Go Getter (YouTube)
3. Wishbone
4. I’m Everyone Who’s Ever Said I Love You
5. The Izaac Walton Hotel
6. Oblivion
7. News From Home (YouTube)
8. All My Devotion (YouTube)
9. Connie’s Song
10. Song For Joy
11. Video Games

Clara Mann 2026 Tour Dates

30.10 – Echolot | Lucerne, Switzerland
15.11 – The Sugar Club | Dublin, Ireland, with Jasmine Wood
24.11 – Pianodrome | Edinburgh, United Kingdom, with Heka
25.11 – Halle at St Michaels | Manchester, United Kingdom, with Heka
28.11 – Outside | Bantham, United Kingdom, with Heka
29.11 – Lantern Hall at Bristol Beacon | Bristol, United Kingdom, with Kevin Fowley
04.12 – St Matthias Church | London, United Kingdom, with Kevin Fowley

Pre-order Wishbone by Clara Mann HERE