Fenne Lily is releasing her third album Big Picture on April 14 via Dead Oceans. She's already shared the lead single "Lights Light Up," and today she's giving us another taste of the project with "Dawncolored Horse." The title comes from Richard Brautigan's poem “The Horse That Had a Flat Tire."
“[Brautigan] talks about the woman he loves as being a ‘breathing castle,'" Lily said. "I truly don’t know what that means, but for me he’s distilled a feeling of absolute closeness. When you know someone so well it feels like you’re almost living inside them. That can be claustrophobic, but before it’s too much, it’s incredible.”
She also explained how the song's twangy sound came about: “A lot of the music I was listening to while I was writing seemed to be old kind of country stuff; the album Anymore for Anymore by Ronnie Lane and Slim Change was a big one—anything that sounded warm and comfortable, just people in a room playing what came most naturally. When I brought this song to the band it easily fell into that sort of world—it felt stable, which is cool for a song that came from a place of total instability.”
Listen to "Dawncolored Horse" below, and pre-order Big Picture here.
