{"id":22331,"date":"2025-02-07T14:12:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T14:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=22331"},"modified":"2025-02-07T14:12:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T14:12:29","slug":"macie-stewart-announces-new-album-when-the-distance-is-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=22331","title":{"rendered":"Macie Stewart announces new album, <em>When The Distance Is Blue<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22333\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22333\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Macie-Stewart-by-Shannon-Marks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"464\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Shannon Marks<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fluid in a variety of genres, <a href=\"https:\/\/maciestewart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Macie Stewart<\/a> 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, <em>When the Distance is Blue<\/em>, which she describes as \u201ca love letter to the moments we spend in-between.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The album arrives on March 21st through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intlanthem.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Anthem<\/a>, and ahead of it Stewart has shared the lead single &#8216;Spring Becomes You, Spring Becomes New&#8217;, a beautiful, beguiling and cinematic track. \u201cThis piece reminds me of a cross country train ride through different sceneries and landscapes,\u201d says Stewart. \u201cIt\u2019s the feeling when you\u2019re witnessing everything pass outside your window, knowing you may never set foot there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Spring Becomes You, Spring Becomes New&#8217; comes with an accompanying video filmed and directed by Mikel Patrick Avery and you can watch it below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yX5ghiX8Rj0?si=y-IGjv7ynQCQC7PR\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3301],"class_list":["post-22331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-macie-stewart"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22334,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22331\/revisions\/22334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}