#Half Waif Shares New Song “Horse Racing”: Listen

Half Waif has shared another single from Mythopoetics. “Horse Racing” follows “Orange Blossoms,” “Party’s Over,” “Take Away the Ache,” “Swimmer,” and the announcement of her 2021 tour dates. Listen to it below

“I started writing ‘Horse Racing’ in an Airbnb in Brooklyn that week in March 2020 when everything got really real,” she said. “Alone in an unfamiliar apartment, as an unseen force took over our lives, I was struck by how much of a wake-up call it all was. How we were being shaken by our shoulders and told to face something really ugly and monstrous about our ways of being. It felt like we were race horses who had only just realized we were on a track, going around again and again. There’s no end in a circle. And maybe now that we recognized this, we could break out of it, bust right out of the ring—which is what the end section feels like sonically to me. A shot at freedom.”

Mythopoetics follows last year’s The Caretaker and is due out July 9. Read about Half Waif’s “Ordinary Talk” in Pitchfork’s “The 100 Best Songs of 2020.”