Jamila Woods has announced the new album Water Made Us

“"Tiny Garden” is a song about the way my heart works, the slow and steady way I love. In my directorial debut, I wanted to create a visual representation of how I often feel in relationships, like I’m having huge feelings that I end up expressing in small specific ways," Woods says of the new single.

"The video takes place across two landscapes, the reality of a shared apartment at the tail end of winter and an imagined “heartspace” where everything is lush and green. I worked with my friend and frequent collaborator Po Chop on the choreography, so that the movement becomes the key to merging these two worlds – everywhere I dance, something grows.

The new album takes its name from a quote by Toni Morrison, whose works have also inspired Woods’ song “Sula (Paperback)” and a chapbook of her poetry.

Water Made Us feels like the most personal and vulnerable piece of art I’ve ever made. I love creating from source material, diving deep into a subject and extrapolating from what I discover. We sat in the house for two years and I became my own source material," she continues. "

Shout out to the therapists, the astrologers, the family members, and friends who listened, who helped me process and transform my journaled thoughts and questions into this body of work. I hope it feels like a playlist that carries you through the life cycle of a relationship, whatever stage of the journey your heart may be in."

Water Made Us is Woods’ third album, and the follow-up to 2019’s Legacy! Legacy!.

Tracklist:

1. Bugs
2. Tiny Garden (feat. duendita)
3. Practice (feat. Saba)
4. Let the Cards Fall
5. Send a Dove
6. Wreckage Room
7. Thermostat (feat. Peter CottonTale)
8. Out of the Doldrums
9. Wolfsheep
10. I Miss All My Exes
11. Backburner
12. Libra Intuition
    
13. Boomerang
14. Still
15. The Best Thing
16. Good News
17. Headfirst