Arny Margret has shared new single “Day Old Thoughts,” the track features labelmate Ásgeir on additional guitar and percussion, and Wurlitzer. “This was recorded here in Iceland last fall,” explains Margret of the track, captured with longtime collaborator and album co-producer Guðm. “Kiddi” Kristinn Jónsson (who also directed the song’s accompanying video). “The first thing we tried to do was get together the band and do this one slightly differently. It says a lot of things, it’s honest.” “Day Old Thoughts” is the third single from the Icelandic singer-songwriter’s forthcoming new album I Miss You, I Do, following “Happy New Year” and the title track. Co-produced by Margret, Jónsson, Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee, Hurray), Josh Kaufman (Bonny Light Horseman, Bob Weir, The Hold Steady), and Andrew Berlin (Gregory Alan Isakov, Rise Against), the album is due out March 7th via One Little Independent Records.

I Miss You, I Do follows the release of Margaret’s 2022 debut album they only talk about the weather, and her 2023 EP dinner alone, Margret was touring internationally, opening for artists Leif Vollebekk, Blake Mills, Julian Lage, and Wilco. It was on the heels of U.S. support dates in Spring 2024 when she arrived in Durham, North Carolina, to begin recording her second album with Cook. Despite wanting to try new things and a new approach with this release, Margret found herself feeling already ready to go home, as she missed the comforts of the places she knew and felt anxious about the unknown. Yet soon, sitting in the control room of Cook’s studio, she found resolution as they listened to the playback of “Took the Train ’til the End,” a devastating and personal portrait of how it feels to never feel seen, as if you’re camouflaged from your own life. As the warm piano chords of Cook’s older brother, Phil, cradled Margret’s bittersweet voice and soft guitar, Brad began to cry, stirred by the new shape this song about trying to find self-definition had taken. Margret knew then that the fear of the unknown she’d had was worth it; that her ambitions for her second album were being realized in real time.

Soon after the session with Cook, she headed west to work with Berlin, who captured two of the album’s most affecting moments with Margret–the haunted, reassuring track “Crooked Teeth” and “Happy New Year.” She then made one more stop on her itinerary of American studios: New York, to start work with Kaufman.

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