Flock of Dimes—the solo project of singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jenn Wasner—announced her upcoming third album today. The Life You Save will be released October 10 via Sub Pop Records. She also shared the leading promotional single “Long After Midnight.”

Produced primarily by Wasner, The Life You Save challenges the artist to look outside herself for inspiration. “My previous records, generally, have been a summary of things I had already been through— experiences I had observed and reflected upon, reporting back from some amount of distance,” she says. “But this record is different. It is an attempt to report from inside of a process that is ongoing and unfinished, from which I will likely never fully emerge as long as I am alive: my struggle within the cycles of addiction and co-dependency.”

Wasner continues:

“I set out trying to make a record about other people.

“Their problems, their struggles, their addictions.

“I struggled for many years to give myself permission to write about this subject–worried that I was telling someone else’s story, a story that was not mine to tell. The work felt hazy and obscured; I was confused, and I struggled. The beauty of songwriting, at its best, is that it puts you in touch with your subconscious–a place where you can only tell the truth. Many of those truths were hard to accept.  Some I don’t, even now, feel fully ready to say. But through this process, I came to understand that I was struggling with this record because I wasn’t being honest with myself. I was so deeply entrenched in the system in which I was raised that I thought I was outside of it, and the ways in which I continued to participate remained invisible to me.”

Her statement concludes that a reflection on relationships—how one chooses to act toward, to “save”, and to think about others—reveals that she cannot ever separate herself from the people around her. “In the end, it is my hope that this record exists as a testament to the depth of my love for those I cannot save, and that it might provide some comfort for anyone who is still learning how to love and live for themselves.”

Flock of Dimes will also begin a headline tour in November, travelling to select cities across the United States. Tickets go on sale this Friday, July 25, at 10 am local.

Flock of Dimes
The Life You Save
Tracklist
Sub Pop Records

1. Afraid
2. Keep Me in the Dark
3. Long After Midnight
4. Defeat
5. Close to Home
6. The Enemy
7. Not Yet Free
8. Pride
10. Theo
11. Instead of Calling
12. River in My Arms
13. I Think I’m God

Flock of Dimes 2025 Tour Dates

Nov. 06 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
Fri. Nov. 07 – New Haven, CT – Space Ballroom
Sat. Nov. 08 – Brooklyn, NY – National Sawdust
Sun. Nov. 09 – Somerville, MA – The Rockwell
Tue. Nov. 11 – Washington, DC – The Atlantis
Wed. Nov. 12 – Saxapahaw, NC – Haw River Ballroom
Mon. Dec. 01 – Seattle, WA – Barboza
Tue. Dec. 02 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
Thu. Dec. 04 – San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop
Fri. Dec. 05 – Los Angeles, CA – Zebulon

Pre-order The Life You Save by Flock of Dimes HERE