“The ultimate freedom arrives when you realize you can’t avoid being wounded,” guitarist/vocalist Isaac Horn explains. “Once you come to terms with that, you realize that you might as well let yourself be vulnerable enough to experience real connection, to let yourself feel the whole range of human emotion and get caught up in whatever beautiful story the world has in store for you.”
The Arcadian Wild first began teasing the upcoming album last month with the release of “Comes Around Again,” watch the official video HERE.
Recorded in Nashville with producer/mixer Micah Tawlks (Judah & The Lion, The Brook & The Bluff), Make It Out Alive transforms the ache of loss into a stunning work of resilience and gratitude, one rooted in a profound appreciation for the fragile humanity that binds us all in this life and beyond. The recordings are lush and expansive, stepping beyond the limitations of live performance to craft an immersive, densely layered soundscape that blurs the lines between folk, country, bluegrass, choral, and pop music. The result is an album that embraces our mortality as a gift, a cathartic, deeply personal reckoning with life’s impermanence that learns to find purpose and meaning in sorrow and mourning.
The songs here are more collaborative than ever before, with fiddler/vocalist Bailey Warren, mandolinist/vocalist Lincoln Mick, and Horn co-writing together for the first time. The altered writing process would ultimately open a whole new side to the band’s sound. Leaning on each other came naturally for the trio, who supported one another both personally and artistically as they explored a series of painful personal losses together in the writing process. Horn tapped into the sadness surrounding the sudden passing of his grandmother; Mick faced down the emotional maelstrom he and his wife experienced after a miscarriage preceded the eventual birth of their daughter; and Warren beautifully reckoned with the lingering absence of her late mother (while simultaneously paying tribute to the steadfastness of her father).
“This is the first time I’m bringing my stories and perspectives to an Arcadian Wild album and merging my songwriting style with Lincoln’s and Isaac’s,” Warren reflects. “They’ve been doing this together for over a decade and I’ve joined them for the last six and a half years, and we are only just now starting to co-write together. I don’t know what took us so long, but not-surprisingly we write very well together. Now more than ever these songs feel wholly ours, which gives the record a new kind of cohesion that’s less about any of us individually and more about the group as a collective.”
Track List:
01) Jubilee
02) Comes Around Again
03) Montreux
04) Spinnin’
05) Cool To Know You
06) Make It Out Alive
07) Impressions
08) See It To Believe It
09) Queen Of Abilene
10) Edge Of The Ozarks
11) The Carpenter
12) Next Time
Tour Dates:
06/03 – St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway
06/04 – Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck
06/06 – Milwaukee, WI @ Vivarium
06/07 – Ann Arbor, MI @ The Ark
06/09 – Grand Rapids, MI @ Stache
06/10 – Aurora, IL @ The Venue
06/11 – Indianapolis, IN @ Turntable
06/12 – Lexington, KY @ The Burl
06/13 – Columbus, OH @ Rumba
08/28 – Colorado Springs, CO @ Lulu’s Downtown
08/29 – Bellevue, CO @ Mishawaka Amphitheatre (w/ Tophouse)