Butcher Babies have set October 2nd as the release date for their new album Nightbloom.
Frontwoman Heidi Shepherd said of the new album:
“A couple of years ago, I found myself in a web of darkness that I couldn’t shake. A vicious cycle of self-loathing and doubt, all while my support system did everything in their power to remind me of who I am. I desperately wanted to see in myself what they saw in me. I needed a way to look in the mirror and find love for who was looking back at me. So, I shut off social media, and for the first time in my life, I started therapy.”
“Therapy sent me down a rabbit hole that I didn’t know existed. Over the course of a year, I was flooded with memories of trauma and emotions that I had suppressed. I started to feel that in this overwhelming darkness, these memories needed a way out. So, I started writing. I wrote about my failure of a ‘perfect’ marriage over 20 years ago. I wrote about the stormy canyon road that sent us to divorce. I wrote about watching the love of my life fall in love with someone else in front of me. I wrote about a one-night stand that has haunted me for decades. I wrote about a former boyfriend who took his own life. I wrote about Mormon religion ostracizing me while their members, and my neighbors shamed my family for supporting me. And even more currently, I wrote the abandonment of losing a best friend of 20 years. I wrote about moments that I didn’t realize held so much weight on my heart until we tore that fucker open in therapy.’
“While reliving and experiencing some of my darkest moments, I started to finally bloom,” she added. “These songs grew and took on life in the dark. In writing these songs, I was able to turn negative experiences in my life into something positive, which in turn gave these memories a new place to live. Moments that I can look at and think ‘Wow, I survived that. I bloomed in the darkest moments of my life.. My ‘Nightbloom’.
“This new album isn’t about the suffering; it’s about the survival. These songs were born from memories of heartbreak, uncertainty, betrayal, and pain. But they’re not just about those subjects, they’re more about what grew because of them. This album, ‘Nightbloom’, is a reminder that not everything beautiful needs perfect sunshine to flourish. Sometimes the most meaningful parts of life begin in the darkest seasons.”
Nightbloom Tracklist:
1. Lost In Your Touch
2. Sincerity
3. Blame It On The Wind
4. Broken & Beautiful
5. Are You Waiting Up?
6. Black Clouds Over Georgia
7. Fever In My Neck
8. Songbird
9. Leaving California
10. Black Dove
The Butcher Babies are currently on tour in support of Chad Gray. That tour makes a stop at The Rave on September 5th.
The album features their latest single “Blame It On the Wind” which can be heard below.
Lyrics:
You said my name
Like it was yours
I didn’t lock the open door
Somewhere between
Truth and thrill
I fell for what I couldn’t feel
Yeah
So blame it on the wind
On the moonlight in my eyes
And blame it on the night
On the neon lights
On a promise
That we couldn’t keep
Oh
Blame it on the wind
For you here with me
It’s just a taste
That’s what you said
And when the lights come on
We’ll forget what we did
But you know that’s a lie
No
You won’t get off that easy
Oh
You’re like a song
That’s been stuck on repeat
So blame it on the wind
On the moonlight in my eyes
And blame it on the night
On the neon lights
On a promise
That we couldn’t keep
Oh
Blame it on the wind
For you here with me
Here with me
Oh
Blame it on the wind
Blame it on the wind
On the moonlight in my eyes
So blame it on the wind
On the moonlight in my eyes
Blame it on the night
On the neon lights
On a promise
That we couldn’t keep
Blame it on the wind
Blame it on the wind
For you here with me
