Carson McHone has shared a new a new video for “Wake You Well.” Shot by McHone and Daniel Romano on a recent transatlantic voyage, the track is off her 2025 album Pentimento, now out via Merge records.

Carson McHone on “Wake You Well:”

“I have taken a ship across the Atlantic five times now — each crossing is seven days at sea. It’s hard to look at water — big water — without considering the self and the vastness. And you’re not gonna get an answer — it’s just, you gotta decide how to carry what you feel.”

on Pentimento:

All of the songs of Pentimento began as poems against the backdrop of global crisis, national borders, civil unrest, birth, death, bad love, new love, true love. They were written in the desert during spring and summer. There, history and time are visual in the drama of great boulders, in layers on a rockface—the potential and past energy of the ancient sea-floor. Some of these lyrics were written on postcards and in letters. Others began as embellishments on watercolor paintings, or captions for a photograph in a diary, or were written as responses in the margins of a journal to a child, newborn, from a generation past. These “artifacts” from writing/living informed what would eventually become material for this record.

Later, beside the ocean, and during the first snow of the season, a special group of musicians gathered to bring the album to life. While half of the songs were built into place according to a rigorous “plan,” the other half came together for the first time on this very occasion and were learned and performed live on the spot. Over six days, all of it was captured on an 8-track cassette tape recorder, including fortuitous feedback bass drone, and spontaneous laughter.

Carson McHone
Pentimento
Tracklisting
Merge Records

1. Winter Breaking
2. Abstract Spring
3. Downhill
4. Vision in the Verse
5. In the Summer the Streets Burned
6. Idiom
7. Fruits of My Tending
8. Forbidden Kiss
9. The Canvas
10. Lucentum
11. Wake You Well
12. Triumph of the Heart
13. September Song

Carson McHone 2026 UK/EU Tour Dates

Aug 25 London, UK – The Shacklewell Arms
Aug 27 Ermelo, NL – “In De Rimboe”
Aug 29 Twello, NL – Into the Mud 2026
Aug 30 Utrechrt, NL – Brewpub Kromme Haring
Sep 01 Guildford, UK – Star Inn
Sep 02 Sheffield, UK – Delicious Clam
Sep 03 Nottingham, UK – The Chapel Nottingham
Sep 04 Manchester, UK – Gulliver’s
Sep 05 Tollard Royal, UK – End of the Road 2026
Sep 06 Sutton, UK – The Sound Lounge
Sep 09 Nijmegen, NL – Thiemeloods
Sep 10 Groningen, NL – Vera

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