Tess Parks is sharing new single “Crown Shy,” the second track off the singer/songwriter’s forthcoming solo album, Pomegranate, available October 25th via Fuzz Club/Hand Drawn Dracula. Parks is also announcing a string of intimate record store release shows in London and Brighton. Pomegranate is the follow-up to Parks’ solo return after nearly a decade with “And Those Who Were Seen Dancing”, which arrived in 2022, following a string of collaborative albums with The Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe.

The album was written and recorded between London, Toronto and Los Angeles, Pomegranate finds Parks teaming up with long-term bandmember and close collaborator Ruari Meehan, who assumes production duties here and co-mixed the album alongside Mikko Gordon (The Smile, Gaz Coombes). Where ‘Dancing’ retained a fair measure of bedroom-demo charm, on ‘Pomegranate’ the canvas is bigger, with Meehan’s arrangements stretching all the way to the horizon.

“This was the only song on the album that we didn’t write from far apart and inspired us to finish the album in person. Ruari sent me this song in early July 2023, literally seconds after I had said goodbye to my sister, Isabella, who was travelling that summer to Paris from King’s Cross Station. As always, Ruari’s timing was perfect and the music sounded exactly like how I was feeling.

This song is my gratitude to my family – and my sister especially – for being the main reason for my sobriety from alcohol, and the happiness I felt reconnecting with my sister after a fractured few years. In a broader sense, though, it’s important to remember that everyone in the world is related. We are all family. We can all always be on the same team. When we realise our commonalities instead of our differences, when we realise and own our piece in every situation and understand that we are co-creators of our realities, our worlds can really shift and it will feel like a miracle.”

Tess Parks release shows

Oct 26 – London – Rough Trade East (Full Band)
Oct 27 – Brighton – Resident (Stripped Back)
Oct 30 – London – Rough Trade West (Stripped Back)

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