Good things take time - six years, in the case of the new LP by Te Awa Kairangi ki Tai / Lower Hutt artist Albert River. His new record 'bank woe' taps deeply into themes of life, death and living as an artist. Described by Under the Radar as "sounding not unlike a spectral folk apparition", the new LP is an underground treasure of shape-shifting melodies and shimmering gentle production. 

He says “I had a dream that died, perhaps us artists understand that sorrow, but then somehow, the dreams dream begins stirring , a very interesting pain artistically’. Exploring concepts of death and life, bank woe is his first album since 2019’s Secret Intelligent Light and his first on Wellington / Te Whanganui-a-Tara label Home Alone. After opening for Bright Eyes followed by a nationwide tour with Reb Fountain and Voom performing with his sister Vera Ellen (whose Taite Winning album Ideal Home Noise he made deep contributions to) Albert River returns to bring us bank woe.  On bank woe he says “there is a ghostly energy in these songs, bank woe has many meanings interweaving, it is very much exploring life and death…about being a poor artist”.

"New single 'deathbed' and lead track 'send my love' feel solitary, starkly contemplative and delicately disarming" - 

Tracklist:
deathbed
rungs
send my love
dream song
array mysterio
forgiving my heart
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