Brother Bird Shares New Single And Video ‘Pariah’ From ‘The Lodge In Miller County’
Brother Bird, the project of Nashville singer-songwriter Caroline Glaser, has shared ‘Pariah’, the latest single from her forthcoming album ‘The Lodge In Miller County’, out September 25 via Easy Does It Records.
The track follows recent single ‘Chameleon’ and arrives with a new video directed by Stephen P. It also comes after Glaser’s run of dates opening for Andy Hull of Manchester Orchestra, who co-produced the new album alongside Glaser, Jamie Martens and Owen Lewis.
‘Pariah’ sits right in that Brother Bird space where quiet feeling and sharp songwriting meet. Glaser has a way of writing about awkwardness, hurt and self-recognition without making it feel overworked, and here she turns that outsider feeling into something more defiant. It begins with the sense of being pushed to the edge of the room, then slowly finds its backbone.
Speaking about the song, Glaser says:
“There’s a subtle nod to compliance/people-pleasing in the verses, but the choruses are strong and defiant. I spent most of my adult life in groups I felt unknown and unwelcome in. You know it in your body, but it takes a while for your brain to catch up. ‘Pariah’ is an embracement of that feeling, but a refusal to conform.”
Across earlier releases including ‘Gardens’ and 2024’s ‘Another Year’, Brother Bird has built a catalogue around intimate writing, careful arrangements and a voice that never needs to force the point. ‘Pariah’ keeps that closeness, but there is a little more bite in it too, the sound of someone realising they no longer need a seat at the wrong table.
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