Mary Timony returns with the brand new single, "The Guest"
Mary Timony – songwriter and guitarist behind Wild Flag, Ex Hex and Helium – has shared her new single, “The Guest,” taken from Untame the Tiger – her first solo album in over a decade.
Following lead single “Dominoes”, "The Guest" was recorded in Baltimore at J. Robbins’ Magpie Cage studio, and features David Christian on drums and Brian Betancourt on bass, with Betsy Wright and Dennis Kane singing backup. Timony describes it as a song sung directly to loneliness: “I was imagining loneliness as a house guest who keeps knocking on your door. I thought it would be funny to say loneliness is the only one who always comes back.”
The accompanying video for “The Guest,” made by Mary’s longtime friend and collaborator Brett Vapnek, was filmed around Santa Barbara. “The first video Brett and I made together was in about 1995 for the Helium song "Honeycomb", and later she also did one for "Dr. Cat" (on The Golden Dove). I also acted in a short movie she made called Dream Machine,” Timony says.
Untame the Tiger is set for release on 23 February via Merge Records.
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