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Dec 03, 2019 By Christopher Roberts Photography by Wrenne Evans M. Ward

M. Ward has announced a new album, Migration Stories, and shared its first single, “Migration of Souls.” He has also announced some tour dates. Migration Stories is due out April 3, 2020 via ANTI-. Check out “Migration of Souls” below, followed by the album’s tracklist and cover art, as well as the tour dates.

Migration Stories follows What a Wonderful Industry, a self-released album Ward surprise-released in 2018. The album was recorded at Arcade Fire’s studio in Montreal and features two members of that band, Tim Kingsbury and Richard Reed Parry, alongside producer/mixer Craig Silvey and Teddy Impakt.

Ward had this to say about the album in a press release: “Some time went by, the stories wove together and I remember them now closer to characters in a dream of how people could treat each other than any kind of front-page news realism. I think music subconsciously - whether writing or listening - is a filter for me. Helping to process all the bad news into something new to build from. Some records to me are like self-fulfilling prophecies - visualizing change to wish something into being. Those records inspired this one.”

What a Wonderful Industry Tracklist:

1. Migration of Souls
2. Heaven’s Nail and Hammer
3. Coyote Mary’s Traveling Show
4. Independent Man
5. Stevens’ Snow Man
6. Unreal City
7. Real Silence
8. Along the Santa Fe Trail (Written by Al Dubin and Hugh Williams)
9. Chamber Music
10. Torch
11. Rio Drone

M. Ward Tour Dates:

04/17/20 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
04/18/20 - Washington, DC @ U Street Music Hall
04/19/20 - Jersey City, NJ @ White Eagle Hall
04/22/20 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
04/24/20 - Boston, MA @ The Sinclair
04/26/20 - Woodstock, NY @ Levon Helm Studios
04/28/20 - Ithaca, NY @ The Haunt
04/29/20 - Toronto, ON @ The Great Hall
05/01/20 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
05/02/20 - Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre
05/03/20 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
05/14/20 - Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
05/16/20 - Seattle, WA @ The Neptune Theatre
05/17/20 - Tacoma, WA @ Elks Temple
05/19/20 - Sonoma, CA @ Gundlach Bundschu Winery - Redwood Barn 05/20/20 - San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel
05/22/20 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent Theater

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