
Photo: Shannon Marks
Fluid in a variety of genres, Macie Stewart is as prolific as she is inventive, counting among her accomplishments a multitude of projects and collaborations with artists like Makaya McCraven, Damon Locks, Alabaster DePlume, Bex Burch, Japanese Breakfast, Resavoir, Tweedy, or SZA, to name but a few. The Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, songwriter, and improviser announced this week the release of her new album, When the Distance is Blue, which she describes as “a love letter to the moments we spend in-between.”
The album arrives on March 21st through International Anthem, and ahead of it Stewart has shared the lead single ‘Spring Becomes You, Spring Becomes New’, a beautiful, beguiling and cinematic track. “This piece reminds me of a cross country train ride through different sceneries and landscapes,” says Stewart. “It’s the feeling when you’re witnessing everything pass outside your window, knowing you may never set foot there.”
‘Spring Becomes You, Spring Becomes New’ comes with an accompanying video filmed and directed by Mikel Patrick Avery and you can watch it below.