Critically acclaimed singer, songwriter and guitarist Josienne Clarke announces her raw and intimate new album Far From Nowhere, due out this autumn via Corduroy Punk. Alongside the album announcement, Clarke shares the first single ‘Tiny Bird’s Lament’, a haunting, minimalist track recorded direct to tape in a remote Scottish cabin. The single offers the first glimpse into the stripped-back sound and emotional clarity that define the new record.
The album will be accompanied by a short film titled Deluded, directed by Alec Bowman_Clarke, offering a candid, behind-the-scenes portrait of the album’s creation. Currently screening at festivals, the film will be shown throughout Clarke’s UK tour this October – full dates now announced – before its general release on November 30th.
Long admired for her crystalline voice and unflinching lyrical gaze, Clarke has always had an ability to evoke a communal melancholy. But with this LP, recorded at a remote Scottish cabin, she’s achieved the feat of stripping away the barriers between artist and listener. What emerges is a record of remarkable intimacy and integrity as Clarke embraces stillness and vulnerability. She sought total isolation but ended up creating something even more profoundly connective.
Also born of practical constraint, Far From Nowhere is a natural step and defiant response to the logistical and emotional tolls of trying to eke out a living in the music industry in 2025. “Making music today, for me, often feels like an exercise in retreat,” Clarke says. “The structure of the industry slowly suffocates the spirit of artists, starving them of the self-esteem that comes from remuneration for a job well done, so retreating to a cabin in the woods to make my album made sense.”
The first taste of the album, ‘Tiny Bird’s Lament’, is released today. Performed on nylon-string guitar with Clarke’s voice layered to evoke birdsong, the song captures the delicate force of freedom. Recorded to tape in the solitude of the woods, it distills the album’s spirit of pure, unvarnished expression. As Clarke describes it, “This tiny bird is finally free to sing its song, a documentation of the fight to free itself and a celebration of its freedom… just pure and true.”
The companion film Deluded, directed by filmmaker Alec Bowman_Clarke, offers an intimate look at the sometimes painful process behind the album’s creation. Shot during the same recording period, the film serves as both a visual essay and emotional mirror to the music, underlining Clarke’s commitment to unfiltered artistic honesty.
Clarke has always been unafraid to ask questions with no clear answers, and here she gives herself no hiding place. In that sense, Far From Nowhere is her most complete artistic statement yet as she spins rawness into elegance. While she admits it may not join the pantheon of classic isolation records – “I’m not in control of the historic time and wider context in which I’m creating and it’s not for me to be diverted by whether my output has any place in popularity,” she says – it still sits firmly in the lineage of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago, and the lo-fi solo work of Adrianne Lenker.
Far From Nowhere speaks authentically, stripping almost everything back musically – not just for practicality’s sake (although it is a call to value attention and our imperfections) and never for novelty but in pursuit of existential truth. In doing so, Clarke invites us into a space where her songs breathe anew: flawed and fragile, radiant and composed.
Artist’s website: https://josienneclarke.com/
Deluded trailer:
‘Tiny Bird’s Lament’:
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