Matt Sweeney & Bonnie 'Prince'

March 23, 2021 For Immediate Release

Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy Release New Single, “My Blue Suit,” with Video Directed by Geof McFetridge & Announce California Tour

Watch “My Blue Suit” Video Here

New Album, Superwolves, Out April 30th (Digitally) & June 18th (Physically) on Drag City

“My Blue Suit” Still (Artwork by Geof McFetridge; Photo by Ely Phillips)

“One of the two main joys on Superwolves is hearing Sweeney get to run the full gamut of his formidable arranger/accompanier repertoire… The other is hearing Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy rise to the occasion.” - MOJO, Album of the Month “Back in 2005, Matt Sweeney and Will Oldham quietly put out an album called Superwolf and watched it become a cult classic. Now, at long last, they’re releasing the follow-up—and repping old-fashioned virtues like friendship, collaboration, and the reckless pursuit of life-changing art.” - GQ

“[‘Hall of Death’] builds on the innovative, eccentric chemistry of their original work together.” - Rolling Stone

Last month, Matt Sweeney and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy announced their new album, Superwolves, out digitally April 30th and physically June 18th via Drag City. Today, they release a new single “My Blue Suit,” with an accompanying video directed by Geof McFetridge, and announce their first tour together since 2014. The tour will see the duo return to their ancestral lupine roots in Big Sur, the site of one of their first live performances, and beyond.

“My Blue Suit” follows previously released singles/videos “Make Worry For Me” and “Hall of Death.” Where “Hall of Death” featured a full band (courtesy of Tuareg guitar giant Mdou Moctar), “My Blue Suit” presents the duo at their core with Sweeney on acoustic guitar and Bonny (aka Will Oldham) on vocals. McFetridge elaborates on the video below:

"I started this video by painting. The work I created, in response to the song, was large scale figures I could use in scenes filmed on camera. All the images in the film are done in camera, there are no digital efects. The graphic sequences were done with paintings wrapped around a garbage can placed on a Techniques 1200 turntable. The tools used to create the efects were knives, glue, paint and tape.

The pieces created for the film are nearly life size portraits done with acrylic on paper. These works, the film and the animated elements will be shown in the project space of Cooper Cole Gallery in Toronto, opening May 1st."

Watch Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy’s Video for “My Blue Suit”

Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy Tour Dates Mon. June 7 - Big Sur, CA @ Henry Miller Memorial Library Tue. June 8 - Big Sur, CA @ Henry Miller Memorial Library Thu. June 10 - Sonoma, CA @ Gundlach Bundschu Winery Sun. June 13 - Malibu, CA @ Dry Gulch Ranch Superwolves, the duo’s second album and first since 2005’s Superwolf, goes boldly into undreamed-of places, and goes deep, as Matt and Bonny take all the musics they know to make songs that penetrate. The two man crew started working on this record five years ago. The first actual session, however, went down about a year ago at Brooklyn’s Strange Weather and the next took place at the Butcher Shoppe in Nashville. Sweeney oversaw the mixing of the Brooklyn sessions with Oldham overseeing the Nashville mixes. On the album, Sweeney sings harmonies along, with, and around his favorite singer, and plays all electric, acoustic, and bass guitars, joined in places by David Ferguson on stand-up bass, Mike Coltun on electric bass, Mdou Moctar on electric lead, Ahmoudou Madassane on rhythm guitar, Souleyman Ibrahim, Ryan Sawyer and Peter Townsend on drums and Mike Rojas on keys. The Bonnie ‘Prince’ sings. Does he ever.

For more on the story behind this special relationship, head over to GQ to read a profile by Chris Heath, also in the April issue, and an exclusive performance of “Only Someone Running,” of the Superwolf album.

Watch “Make Worry For Me” Video

Watch “Hall of Death” Video

Pre-order Superwolves

Download hi-res images and jpegs of Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy [Superwolves artwork by Harmony Korine]

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