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MARLON WILLIAMS

New Zealand’s Marlon Williamswill release his sophomore album, Make Way For Love, on February 16thvia Dead Oceans. Knownfor his effortlessly distinctive voice, Make Way For Lovemarks Marlon’s exponential growth as a songwriter. Throughout 11 original songs, he explores new musical terrain and reveals himself in an unprecedented way in the wake of a fractured relationship. In conjunction with today’s album announcement, Marlon announces an international tour and shares the album’s penultimate track, “Nobody Gets What They Want Anymore,”a duet withAldous Harding,recorded via a late-night long distance phone call, plus an accompanying video filmed in New York City. While Make Way For Lovedraws on Marlon’sown story, it captures the vagaries of relationships we’ve all been through: the bliss, ache, uncertainty, and bitterness. Like the best breakup records, Make Way For Lovedoesn’t shy away from heartbreak, but rather stares it in the face, and mines beauty from it. Delicate and bold, tender and searing, it’s a mightily personal new step for Marlon.
Make Way For Love was recorded with producer Noah Georgesonand his backing band, The Yarra Benders, in North California’s Panoramic Studios after several weeks of pre-production in his native Lyttelton, New Zealand with regular collaborator Ben Edwards.The finished result moves Marlon several paces from “country”—the genre that’s been affixed to him more than any in recent years, but one that’s always been a bit too reductive to be wholly accurate--with forays into cinematic strings, reverb, rollicking guitar and at least one quiet piano ballad.Currentlyin the midst of a sold out global preview tour, following 2017 tours with Bruce Springsteen and City and Colour, next yearwill see Marlontake his incredible live show to 46 cities around the world for his largest ever headline tour.