Half Waif - the musical project of singer, songwriter, producer Nandi Rose - has announced a brand new album, See You At The Maypole. The LP will be released October 4 via ANTI- Records, and serves as the followup to Rose's 2021 record Mythopoetics. She has also shared the first single, "Figurine", along with a music video. Watch/listen below:

This song, along with much of the forthcoming record, was written in the wake of a miscarriage, and was inspired by the internal and external aftermath of such an event.

Of the new song, 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 ... 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."

The song itself appears to be a lovely, if melancholy, ode to this loss, with lyrics like "I love you every morning when the sun / Is rising in the yard" coinciding with lyrics like "I felt it growing in me / And now everything is gone", representing the flood of conflicting emotions Rose and her loved ones must have been grappling with in this time.

Learn more and preorder the album here.

See You At The Maypole is out October 4 on ANTI-.