“It was in winter 18/19 - I flew to Montreal to meet with Tim Kingsbury, Richard Reed Parry, Craig Silvey and TeddyImpakt at Le Studio Du Arcade Fire. It was a fine time with a dream team in a city I love. Winter in beautiful Quebec.Les semaines les plus froides de ma vie.

I had a bunch of demos that were inspired by migration stories I had heard from friends or read in newspapers whileon tour in Europe and North America. I remember being struck by the similarities of the stories I heard from bothcontinents and how really only the names of the powerful and the powerless had changed - thinking, “Is this thefuture? Is this our future?”

Some time went by, the stories wove together and I remember them now closer to characters in a dream of how peoplecould treat each other than any kind of front-page news realism. I think music subconsciously - whether writing orlistening - is a filter for me - helping to process all the bad news into something new to build from - some recordsto me are like self-fulfilling prophecies - visualizing change to wish something into being - those records inspired this one.”- M. Ward winter 19/20

• 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
• 9. Chamber Music
• 10. Torch
• 11. Rio Drone