Jennifer Castle’s “Earthsong”: New Song and Video

JENNIFER CASTLE’S “EARTHSONG”: NEW SONG AND VIDEO

**NEW ALBUM CAMELOT OUT NOVEMBER 1**

Fall 2024 Live Dates in Canada and Scandinavia

A still from “Earthsong.”

Jennifer Castle is back with the achingly beautiful, incantatory new single “Earthsong,” the penultimate track from Camelot, her upcoming album due for release on November 1st, 2024 via Paradise of Bachelors and Solstice Radio.

“Earthsong” is anchored by a compelling spare solo performance and coiled chord progression, an ambiguous appeal to … a wounded lover? a wounded saint? our wounded planet? Possibly all of all of the above, as she sings: “I’m never just your girl/I belong to the world/ And sometimes I feel that pull/ Succumb to it and start to twirl/ And doorways will have to do/ Hallways and mirrors too/ Step through, I’m feeling free/ From this landlocked modernity.”

According to Castle, “‘Earthsong’ was one of the last songs I wrote for what would become Camelot. Seeded from hope, imagination, destiny and resistance, the line that works on me like medicine is ‘I belong to the world.’ Feels good to say and mean that.”

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Jennifer made the “Earthsong” video with her sister Sarah, opening a window to a more personal, intimate, and domestic world. Whereas the previous two videos foregrounded the distancing of technology, cameras, and screens (what she calls in the song “landlocked modernity”), obscuring or hiding the artist in performance by herself or others—like the Olympian gymnasts of “Lucky #8”—”Earthsong” provides a more literal aperture to home and its vulnerabilities (as she sings, “doorways will have to do”). As she walks through the garden and house, a tour guide discoursing and dancing, there are playful nods to the lyrics about being “a child at heart / playing my childish part / laughing through the light / crying through the dark,” as well as, with the swordplay and the dungeon-esque speakeasy window, the Early Middle Ages resonances of the album title Camelot.

A still from “Earthsong.”

Deluxe LP edition features 140g black vinyl and a 34” x 22.5” poster insert with lyrics and artwork by Jesse Harris.
Deluxe CD edition features a gatefold jacket with replica LP artwork and a lyrics insert.

Acknowledgments

Castle reaches a pitch of mystical transport so gorgeously ethereal she seems about to drift off into lands that don’t appear on any map. – Greil Marcus, The Believer

Castle’s music is not so much of the earth as floating above it, untethered to the natural order of time and space … She effortlessly conveys the conflicting emotions that accompany loss. – Pitchfork

No hyperbole, Jennifer Castle is a spectacular songwriter. Castle’s singing carries the joy of life. – The FADER

Castle channels the lunar radiance of Emmylou Harris and the heartfelt barroom blues of Jimmie Dale Gilmore, quietly gleaming with a rustic beauty and a deep, patient understanding of the mystic. – Aquarium Drunkard

Castle’s songs are vibrant and bountiful landscapes, and even in their quietest, darkest moments, they thrum and glow. As a songwriter, Castle has a stunning capacity for crafting lines rich with nuance, humor, and devastating beauty. – CBC