Kevin Bronson on May 17th, 2023

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“While daffodils are blooming in the field / Yellow to remind us how to feel / Wilting to remind us this is real / While she moves closer to the veil,” Kacey Johansing sings on her new single, “Daffodils.” It’s a tender elegy to someone facing their end times, a piano ballad value-added by samples, mellotron, vibraphone and flute.

The song is the introduction to Johansing’s fifth full-length, “Year Away” (out Oct 13).

“Daffodils are one of the first flowers to bloom as the earth begins to thaw, coming even before spring and often emerging from the snow,” Johansing says. “The vibrant yellow is a sign that a seasonal shift is on the horizon, a gesture of hope and light, even in the darkest of times.”

In the album announcement, Johansing explains that during the pandemic she found solace at her piano. The songs that emerged from those sessions were recorded in Highland Park with co-producer/multi-instrumentalist Tim Ramsey (Vetiver, Fruit Bats), and some of the guests on the album include Meg Duffy (Hand Habits) and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith.

The album will be out via Night Bloom Records, the label the songwriter co-founded with Alex Bleeker of Real Estate.

* This post has been updated with the new release date for the album.

||| Watch: The video for “Daffodils”

||| Previously: “All of Me,”