Watch: M. Ward ‘The First Time I Ran Away’ New Video

Indie rocker M. Ward has released a first taste of his new album in the form of a video for the song The First Time I Ran Away. The video was directed by Joel Trussell, the same artist responsible for Ward’s video Chinese Translation clip.

His upcoming album A Wasteland Companion is set to be released on the 9th of April, and is the follow-up to Hold Time. The track listing (see below) consists of twelve tracks.

In anticipation of the release, M Ward said that “Between now and when I made Hold Time there has been a lot of travelling, which requires a lot of reckoning with what to leave behind and what to carry – material and otherwise – and thinking about what I want versus what I need, creatively and otherwise. I wanted to get a reflection of that on the album. It was a process of stripping away my security blanket, which is the same four walls I always record in.”

Watch: M. Ward – The First Time I Ran Away

A Wasteland Companion – Tracklisting

1. Clean Slate (for Alex & El Goodo)

2. Primitive Girl

3. Me And My Shadow

4. Sweetheart

5. I Get Ideas

6. The First Time I Ran Away

7. A Wasteland Companion

8. Watch The Show

9. There’s A Key

10. Crawl After You

11. Wild Goose

12. Pure Joy

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