We Are The Willows - Do You Remembe When Your Heart Was Wild_

In step with the varicolored backdrop of Fall, Twin Cities-based band We Are the Willows presents its sonically explorative full-length album IV, available now in collaboration with Brooklyn’s Youngbloods imprint. In title, the album nods to the project being the band’s fourth LP and is shorthand for Inside Voice, a side project between Willows lead Peter Miller and cellist Hilary James (Bathtub Cig) where the record’s writing derived. IV follows a series of three multi-genre EP projects released in 2023, shifting between classically tinged ambience, soaring falsetto mantras, and dancing syncopated rhythms to develop a fully formed amalgamation of the band’s prior output. Across eight new works, We Are the Willows’ latest effort explores their creative process through a procedural and holistic lens, the end result being a wonderfully earnest and stylistically polished discovery of artistic belonging.