Jill Barber has revealed plans for her next studio album. Titled Metaphora, the record will arrive on June 22 via Outside Music.
It marks her solo follow-up to 2014's Fool's Gold, though she also released a joint record with her brother Matthew Barber in 2016, aptly titled The Family Album.
Metaphora hears the singer-songwriter embracing danceable contemporary pop sounds to address topics like "empowerment, sexual politics, the complications of love and depression."
Four of the nine new songs were co-written by Mother Mother frontman Ryan Guldemond, and the LP was produced by Gus Van Go.
"The sessions became part songwriting and part therapy because I was writing about things that felt pretty raw; politics, sexism, being a mother," Barber said in a statement. "I started to realize that this was going to be a very different kind of album for me. I had more that I needed to say and Ryan helped bring that out with his uncanny knack for melody and song structure."
The first preview of new music arrives with the Guldemond-assisted "Girl's Gotta Do." Scroll past the full Metaphora tracklisting to stream it below.
Metaphora:
1. The Woman
2. Girl's Gotta Do
3. Hooked Your Heart
4. Bigger Than You
5. Mercy
6. Clumsy Heart
7. Cage Without A Key
8. Love Is
9. Hold On
It marks her solo follow-up to 2014's Fool's Gold, though she also released a joint record with her brother Matthew Barber in 2016, aptly titled The Family Album.
Metaphora hears the singer-songwriter embracing danceable contemporary pop sounds to address topics like "empowerment, sexual politics, the complications of love and depression."
Four of the nine new songs were co-written by Mother Mother frontman Ryan Guldemond, and the LP was produced by Gus Van Go.
"The sessions became part songwriting and part therapy because I was writing about things that felt pretty raw; politics, sexism, being a mother," Barber said in a statement. "I started to realize that this was going to be a very different kind of album for me. I had more that I needed to say and Ryan helped bring that out with his uncanny knack for melody and song structure."
The first preview of new music arrives with the Guldemond-assisted "Girl's Gotta Do." Scroll past the full Metaphora tracklisting to stream it below.
Metaphora:
1. The Woman
2. Girl's Gotta Do
3. Hooked Your Heart
4. Bigger Than You
5. Mercy
6. Clumsy Heart
7. Cage Without A Key
8. Love Is
9. Hold On