Carson McHone has announced Pentimento, out September 12 on Merge Records. Her first full-length album since 2022’s Still Life, Pentimento finds McHone on the frontier of her musical imagination, channeling inputs as diverse and surprising as guitar rock, pastoral folk, poetry, field recordings, visual art, memory, family, and landscape into her most profound effort to date. She shares a first offering from Pentimento, “Winter Breaking,” which introduces the album’s titular traces, building itself out of birdsong and spoken word, along with a McHone-directed video featuring the art and work of ceramicist Alejandra Almuelle.
It’s been a busy three years for McHone since the release of Still Life. The Austin native moved to Canada, has toured relentlessly, and released two EPs, 2022’s Camera Varda Variations and 2024’s ODES. Pentimento, written in the Texas desert and recorded on the Canadian coast with collaborators Colleen Coco Collins, Michael Cloud Duguay, Raha Javanfar, Steven Lambke, and Daniel Romano, is a layered compilation of life’s shifting circumstances and the disquiet of the world at large.
Carson McHone – Pentimento
- Winter Breaking
- Abstract Spring
- Downhill
- Vision in the Verse
- In the Summer the Streets Burned
- Idiom
- Fruits of My Tending
- Forbidden Kiss
- The Canvas
- Lucentum
- Wake You Well
- Triumph of the Heart
- September Song
McHone will embark on a summer tour of Europe with Daniel Romano in July. US and Canadian tour dates are in the offing—including a listening party and multi-disciplinary performance of Pentimento for In the Soil Arts Festival: Harvesting the Soil in St. Catharines, ON, on September 12, the night of the album release, and a month-long Texas residency in October.
Carson McHone on tour:
Jul 18 Deventer, NL – Burgerweeshuis*
Jul 19 Rotterdam, NL – Rotown*
Jul 20 Venlo, NL – Grenswerk
Jul 24 Ermelo, NL – In De Rimboe
Jul 30 Barcelona, ES – Upload*
Aug 01 Madrid, ES – El Sol*
Aug 02 Valencia, ES – Loco Club*
Aug 07 Göteborg, SE – Way Out West
Aug 08 Fredrikstad, NO – Tæpes
Aug 12 Uppsala, SE – Katalin
Aug 13 Östersund, SE – Jazzköket
Aug 14 Trondheim, NO – Moskus
Aug 15 Ringebu, NO – Arnemoen Gard
Aug 16 Lidköping, SE – Bustad Brewing
Aug 17 Lund, SE – Merjeriet*
Aug 19 Drammen, NO – Kulturhus
Aug 20 Bergen, NO – Statraden
Aug 22 Vangen, NO – Haugesund Festival
Aug 23 Stockholm, SE – Stockholm Roots
*Supporting Daniel Romano’s Outfit
