Half Waif, the project of Nandi Rose, is back with a new album. See You at the Maypole, the follow-up to 2021’s Mythopoetics, arrives October 4 via Anti-. New song “Figurine” leads the LP. Below, watch its Derrick Belcham–directed video, shot at Rose’s upstate New York home with choreographer Kora Radella, and scroll down to see Annika Tucksmith’s album art and the tracklist. Half Waif will tour the United States behind the LP; check out the dates below.
In press materials, Rose explains how a theme of the album arose from a medical episode that followed a miscarriage. Of “Figurine,” Rose says, “Not everyone will go through a miscarriage, but this is a song about how to continue on after losing something precious, how to find the light on your face again.” She continues, “I was literally carrying death inside me, and then my body was frozen…. This wasn’t just my story, I wanted to say. It was every story of loss—the loss of a life, the loss of a dream, the loss of trust and hope and faith. A story of finding a way back again.”
Rose worked with longtime collaborator Zubin Hensler on the LP, along with a rotating band including percussionists Jason Burger and Zack Levine, guitarist Josh Marre, violinists Hannah Epperson and Elena Moon Park, clarinettist Kristina Teuschler, trombonist Willem de Koch, harpist Rebecca El-Saleh, and upright bassist Spencer Zahn.
