Indie pop duo Widowspeak have announced a new album titled Roses, set for release on 5th June.
The record marks the band’s seventh studio album and arrives at a point of quiet transition. Core members Molly Hamilton and Robert Earl Thomas, now married, have settled into a different rhythm of life, balancing steady jobs alongside their long-running musical partnership.
Long associated with Captured Tracks, Widowspeak have also witnessed significant changes in the New York music scene that helped shape them. Many of the DIY venues and rehearsal spaces that once defined their early years have gradually disappeared, a shift that informs the reflective tone of the new material.
For Roses, the duo travelled away from those surroundings entirely. The album was recorded on the Greek island of Hydra, working from the Old Carpet Factory, where they developed a 10-track collection shaped by both distance and perspective.
New single ‘If You Change’ offers a first look at the record. On the surface, the song leans into the band’s familiar strengths, soft melodies, understated arrangements and a gentle sense of warmth. Beneath that, however, sits a more complex emotional current, centred on the tension between preservation and change.
Hamilton explains that the song grew from a fear of disrupting things that feel complete.
“I thought about the fear of change, and when things feel stuck in time because of a fear of ruining them. You always hear ‘mint condition’ as though it’s an asset, but it also means that thing hasn’t been used, lived with, loved.”
The accompanying video extends those ideas, drawing on imagery connected to childhood memory. Hamilton references The Velveteen Rabbit as a key influence, particularly its central idea that something becomes real through being loved.
“That’s sort of how the video came to be what it is,” she says, linking the song’s themes of care, change and emotional attachment.
With Roses, Widowspeak continue to refine a sound that has remained quietly distinctive over the years, one that balances simplicity with emotional depth, and nostalgia with a growing awareness of time passing.
Roses arrives on 5th June.
Tracklist
- The Hook
- No Driver
- Roses
- If You Change
- Wondering
- Angel Number
- Soft Cover
- Heaven Is Waiting
- Actor
- Hourglass
