About Farewell

Alela Diane's 4th album, About Farewell, serves as an eloquent goodbye to lovers from years past, coupled with some poignant last walks down memory lane. While the lyrics deal most directly with Alela's recent divorce, the album explores her entire last decade of relationships with tremendous honesty and nuanced insight. The entirety of About Farewell was built around Alela's voice and simple guitar arrangements. A once-heartsick Alela has said her farewells, and now is the time to meet the new, more fully actualized woman. Alela's first release went Gold in France; her most recent, on Rough Trade, garnered a rating of 9 of 10 from SPIN; Alela has been featured on NPR and toured with Fleet Foxes and Blitzen Trapper.

About Farewell was recorded with John Askew at Flora Recording Studios in her current hometown of Portland, Ore, in late 2011 and early 2012. Over the course of 2012 Alela enlisted the help of some very talented friends to flesh out the sound: Heather Broderick (Sharon Van Etten, Efterklang) arranging and playing piano and flute, Holcombe Waller arranging strings, and Neal Morgan (Joanna Newsom, Bill Callahan) playing drums. In early 2013, she finished mixing the album with John Askew at Scenic Burrows and Mix Foundry.

Also available as an 180 gram vinyl LP with digital download card.