Abby Sage announces debut album 'The Rot'

Following on from the glowing response to her much-loved singles 'Milk' and 'Hunger' last year, Abby Sage has now announced her plans for her eagerly-awaited debut album, arriving in the coming months.

The new full-length 'The Rot' is being previewed by the lead track 'Obstruction', which comes accompanied by a stunning new video, and is set to be released on the 1st March via Nettwerk.

Speaking about the new offering, she said, “In ‘Obstruction,’ I wanted to personify a pestering thought. I think it was an important song for me to release a memory I had been holding on to for a while. It’s a thought that doesn’t leave you no matter how hard you try. It shows up in your living room, in your day-to-day tasks. I wanted to use very literal and realized language to describe the process of getting rid of it, ‘cut it out with a knife’… That felt like such a beautiful visual to me, physically cutting out a memory with a sharp knife.”

While adding about the new visuals, “When I tried to picture what a video for ‘Obstruction’ would look like, I always imagined the setting of me having dinner with a personified version of the memory, the puppet, and going through those inner monologue motions. We dance, we fight, but ultimately I kill it off and mourn the memory but finally learn to let it go.”

Watch the new video for 'Obstruction' in the player and see the album's full tracklisting below.

'The Rot' Tracklist:
1. Milk
2. Three Floors, Three Doors
3. Jude
4. Phantom Arm
5. Hunger
6. Soak
7. Obstruction
8. Little Dove (interlude)
9. Back & Bone
10. The Rot

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