Half Waif, AKA: Nandi Rose, has revealed new 2021 live dates. The tour includes stops in Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, and more.  Tickets go on sale Friday, May 21st. Last month, Half Waif recently announced her new album Mythopoetics, with a video for lead single “Swimmer.”

Half Waif
Mythopoetics
Anti- Records

1. Fabric
2. Swimmer
3. Take Away The Ache
4. Fortress
5. The Apartment
6. Sourdough
7. Party’s Over
8. Horse Racing
9. Orange Blossoms
10. Midnight Asks
11. Sodium and Cigarettes
12. Powder

Half Waif
Live Dates

11/2 – Los Angeles @ The Echo
11/3 – San Francisco @ The Chapel
11/5 – Portland @ Mississippi Studios
11/6 – Seattle @ Barboza
11/13 – Philadelphia @ Johnny Brenda’s
11/14 – Washington DC @ Songbyrd
11/15 – New York @ Bowery Ballroom
11/16 – Boston @ Sonia
11/18 – Montreal @ Bar le Ritz
11/19 – Toronto @ Drake Hotel
11/21 – Chicago @ Schubas

On Mythopoetics, Rose once again collaborated with multi-instrumentalist, film composer and producer Zubin Hensler. The pair came together for a recording residency at Pulp Arts in Gainesville, Florida, with the intention of creating stripped-back recordings of old songs, solely focusing on Rose and her piano. However, the playground of the studio soon transformed the project into a texturally diverse and kaleidoscopic sonic universe.

“This is the record I’ve been trying to make for 10 years,” Rose says. “My voice is changing, and my confidence has reached a point where I feel that I can sing however I want; I’ve finally come to a place where I don’t have to conform to what I think other people want it to sound like.”

Mythopoetics is an album about processing past traumas in the quest for a new, sun dappled pathway, and the transformation that takes place as we take each tentative step. The artwork, shot by Ali Cherkis, sees Rose screaming in bright colors on the front, and naked, with a stoic expression on the back, representing the spectrum of emotions explored throughout each track. Change, evolution and joy take real courage, and it’s in the catharsis of telling your story that the calm, confident aftermath can finally reach the surface. Here, Half Waif is shunning the shadowed mass of generational trauma and the patterns passed down to her.

pre-order Mythopoetics by Half Waif via ANTI- Records