Wendy Eisenberg has announced their new self-titled album today, which arrives via Joyful Noise Recordings on April 3rd.

The guitarist, songwriter, and composer has shared a new song called "Meaning Business", which you can listen to below:

"Meaning Business" was written by Eisenberg just days after the passing of acclaimed film director David Lynch.

"I loved his work dearly, especially Twin Peaks/Fire Walk With Me/The Return, which is an especially important work to me and so many other people who have experienced sexual assault. Recovery from the trauma of that particular horror is a hallucinatory and psychedelic process because you're reckoning with true horror – basically, the thesis of the Twin Peaks universe. This song sees me trying to find the little kid who I was, who endured that horror, and ultimately trying to free her from being trapped in that memory ('Find Laura')."

Wendy Eisenberg previously released "Will You Dare" off the album back in November. The self-titled record follows 2024's Viewfinder, with the first ideas materializing in 2020 when Eisenberg moved from Massachusetts to Brooklyn. They yearned for pastoral sounds by songwriters such as John Hartford, Gillian Welch, and John Prine; "weirdo country interpreters" like Richard Dawson and Joanna Newsom, and finally, the pop-folk orchestrations of Judee Sill, Jimmy Webb, and Van Dyke Parks.

"The production is less about seeing what the guitar might be capable of and more accepting the inherent strangeness of the languages it has spoken for the last century and a half," Eisenberg says.

The record features a tight-knit circle of their longtime collaborators — including bassist Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle) , drummer Ryan Sawyer, and co-producer Mari Rubio, who handled pedal steel, synth, and string arrangements — recording often at Eisenberg's home and bringing a gorgeous ensemble texture to each note. "I was finally around people who accepted me," Eisenberg says. "Many of the songs on this record were written in that new feeling. I wanted it to be incredibly comforting as it describes some massive changes in self-understanding and self-regard. It's about relief."

Wendy Eisenberg is out April 3. Preorder here. Full tracklist:

1. Take A Number
2. Meaning Business
3. Old Myth Dying
4. Another Lifetime Floats Away
5. It's Here
6. Vanity Paradox
7. Curious Bird
8. The Ultraworld
9. Will You Dare
10. The Walls

Tour dates:

01/22 Brooklyn, NY @ Roulette
01/24 New York, NY @ 22 Peck Slip (w/ Bad History Month)
01/30 New York, NY @ Night Club 101 (w/ Peaer)
03/25 New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge (w/ Rich(ard) Dawson)
04/01 Chicago, IL @ Constellation (w/ Rich(ard) Dawson)
04/15 Ridgewood, NY @ TV Eye (w/ more eaze)
04/16 Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s (w/ more eaze)

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