The Ophelias will release their latest album, Spring Grove, on April 4 via their new label Get Better Records. Joining the band will be Julien Baker, who handled production duties for the record. This was the first album she produced that didn’t have her name on its cover. She brought her pedal steel and voice to the studio, singing harmonies and playing on a number of tracks.
For singer Spencer Peppet, the album centers around our connections to the people in our lives, those from the past and those who occupy significant emotional acreage right now. It’s these relationships that help us to define ourselves and the world in which live. For drummer Mic Adams, the process of making Spring Grove became an opportunity to address the reality of his coming out as transgender, a process made more comfortable, according to Adams, by Baker creating a safe environment for him to express these new perspectives. It’s an album of open interpretations and meaningful self-expression – and it’s all packed full of surging rock vignettes and soothing bouts of melodic nuance.
In advance of its release, the band has shared a video for lead single, “Cumulonimbus”, a dusty indie rock anthem that fuses the genre’s temerity with the emotional openheartedness of artists like Bon Iver and The National. The clip was shot by Paige Hochstatter, who was inspired by tarot cards, suburban sprawl, and gothic tales of Midwestern ennui.
Watch the video below.
Spring Grove is due out April 4 via Get Better Records. You can pre-order it here. Follow the band on Facebook, X, and Instagram.
