Keep a Tender Distance Eleri Ward

• 1 Merrily We Roll Along 04:47
• 2 Stay With Me 02:42
• 3 Unworthy of Your Love 03:35
• 4 Johanna 02:00
• 5 Agony 02:54
• 6 I Remember 03:34
• 7 Another Hundred People 03:51
• 8 The Miller's Son 05:13
• 9 I Know Things Now 02:38
• 10 Not a Day Goes By 03:22
• 11 Not While I'm Around 03:28
• 12 No One Is Alone 04:12
• 13 Marry Me a Little 05:06
• 14 Move On 03:44
• Total Runtime 51:06

Info for Keep a Tender Distance

The new album "Keep a Tender Distance" is a follow-up to last year's A Perfect Little Death, with songs from Assassins, Company, Into the Woods, Evening Primrose, and more.

Eleri Ward's Keep a Tender Distance, Ward's second album of folk-inspired Sondheim covers, is released via Ghostlight Records in digital and streaming formats September 16, with a physical recording expected to drop later this year. The release is a follow-up to her 2021 album A Perfect Little Death.

Along with the previously released singles "No One is Alone" (from Into the Woods) and "Another Hundred People" from Company, the album includes songs from Merrily We Roll Along, Assassins, Sweeney Todd, Evening Primrose, A Little Night Music, and Sunday in the Park With George. Keep a Tender Distance is produced by Allen Tate and Ward with string arrangements by Ellis Ludwig-Leone.

"In order to choose the songs for this second collection," shared Ward in an earlier statement, "I go for the compositions I love, feel connected with, and hear the arrangements for in my head. Inspiration never leads me astray, so that’s what I follow. These were the songs that spoke with the most clarity and passion."

“Making this second album has been entirely different than the first in many ways, first of which is collaboration," continued Ward. "A Perfect Little Death was recorded completely on my own. I arranged each song alone, and while it was mixed and mastered by my talented friend, Tom Deis, I had very clear ideas for how I wanted everything to be. With this new record, I created the arrangements myself, but went into each studio session with an open mind of what each song could ultimately be. My producer, Allen Tate, was an amazing sounding board for new ideas when I didn’t have clarity off the bat for the song we were doing in the moment. On that note, working with Ellis Ludwig-Leone on string arrangements brought me so much joy, taking the six songs he worked on to a place my brain could never have imagined on my own. I went into recording this album with a lot of open space, not wanting to confine myself into any set arrangement, and that allowed for these collaborations to really bring everything to the next level."

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