Madeline Johnston has announced her fourth album as Midwife, No Depression In Heaven, due out on September 6 via The Flenser. It’s the follow-up to 2021’s Luminol and her 2023 collaboration with Vyva Melinkolya, Orbweaving, and it features appearances from Chris Adolf and Michael Stein of American Culture, Ben Schurr and Tim Jordan of Nyxy Nyx, Angel Diaz of Vyva Melinkolya, and Allison Lorenzen. “It’s about the transient nature of what we do,” Johnston says. “Our bodies are vessels –– our bodies are, together, a vessel, a vehicle, and that togetherness allows us to become something larger than ourselves in the slipstream of the unconscious, droving.”
The first single is “Killdozer,” a hushed dark folk song which, according to the press release, is “an ode to a city lost in the aftermath of gentrification. It centers on the story of Marvin Heemeyer, a muffler repair shop owner who went on a demolition spree in a modified bulldozer before killing himself in a small Colorado town in 2004.” Watch the video below.
MIDWIFE – NO DEPRESSION IN HEAVEN TRACKLIST
Rock N Roll Never Forgets
Autoluminescent
Droving
Vanessa
Killdozer
Better Off Alone
No Depression In Heaven