It is supposed to be about the simple matter of an Organ Thing of the Day, this thing we do now, just a piece of art or a piece of music or an album or an exhibition, most of the time it ends up being far more than that as this Organ monster continues to eat time and everything else. Here we are at the start of 2026, coming up to the 4000th page in terms of this website and this most recent form of Organ, that and thinking about Organ’s 40th birthday that comes up towards the end of this year. Is it all worth it? While we question it all, here’s a simple Thing of the Day for today, a rather beautiful new piece of music from Will Oldham…

The headline reads “Bonnie Prince Billy announces new album”. That new album, We Are Together Again, will be released on March 6th, the label, Domino/No Quarter, have released a rather beautiful new song from the album this morning; They Keep Trying To Find You, here it is. There is also an announcement about “a special London show at St Giles, Camberwell”, the press release and all the details can be found under the the video…       

The press release and the details…

Bonnie “Prince” Billy – the persona/stage-name of musician Will Oldham – will release a new studio record titled We Are Together Again on March 6th via Domino/No Quarter. The follow-up to The Purple Bird, Oldham began working on this set before his Nashville-sojourn to record that album, and picked them up again last spring, taking these 10 songs into End of an Ear Studios in Louisville with his current tour mates Jacob Duncan (flute and saxophone) and Thomas Deakin (clarinet, whistle, baritone electric guitar, accordion, cornet), along with Ryder McNair, Chris Bush, Ned Oldham and Erin Hill.
 
Oldham notes: “This record was made closer to the Ohio River than any I’ve been involved with since 1993’s Palace Brothers There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You. Louisville’s current-and-past vital musical community is highlighted on every song.  Catherine Irwin, who sang on the BPB release Ease Down the Road, is back here on “Hey Little” and “Vietnam Sunshine”.  Lacey Guthrie, Tory Fisher and Katie Peabody, the three front women of the band Duchess, sing together on the opening and closing songs, parallel odes to the beast that is fear.“
 
However dimly we perceive it, we are living through a change of worlds. The one we were born into is slipping away, reshaped and denuded by human action. What remains is the question of what we will carry forward, and how we will refuse to surrender ourselves. We Are Together Again feels like an answer. In Oldham’s songs – and in the circle of others gathered beneath the name Bonnie “Prince” Billy – friendship, community, and the stubborn joy of making art with others become a means of persistence. This isn’t a denial of collapse, which would be delusion, but a kind of defiance: remaining fully human, fully joyful, in a world with a diminishing horizon.*
 
Jim Marlowe engineered the album sessions and co-produced it with Oldham. The first track to be shared from the record is “They Keep Trying To Find You” alongside a video produced by Jake Forman and choreographed and directed by Abi Elliott.

We Are Together Again doesn’t resolve fear; it meets it with harmony. It’s a record about the stubborn miracle of community, and about how, so long as there are voices asking together, the asking itself becomes hope.*

We Are Together Again is available to pre-order on limited transparent vinyl (+ exclusive art print via DomMart), standard vinyl, CD (+ poster) and digitally. Pre-order: DomMart | Digital

Monday 26th January – St Giles’ Church, Camberwell, London. Details and such here. Did we read something about needing to pre-order the aslbum to get access to the tickets?