Flock of Dimes Shares New Track “Defeat”
The Life You Save Due Out October 10 by way of Sub Pop
Sep 17, 2025
Images by Elizabeth Weinberg
Flock of Dimes (the solo challenge of Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner) is releasing a brand new album, The Life You Save, on October 10 by way of Sub Pop. Now she has shared its third single, “Defeat.” Watch the lyric video under.
Wasner had this to say in regards to the tune in a press launch: “This tune represents a second of whole give up. It’s in regards to the second I lastly allowed myself to just accept my very own powerlessness, and began the method of studying the way to step again and permit others to face the implications of their actions. It contains a second of melodic counterpoint that grew to become a type of mantra for myself as I tried to make my manner by way of this course of—I’m inside it, in spite of everything. This realization—kindly first launched to me by somebody I like who sees me clearly—was one thing of a breakthrough for me. Studying to see myself as part of a dynamic (moderately than separate, having escaped) was an essential step in altering my very own habits—which is, finally, the one actual agent of change over which I’ve any type of management. Three years after I wrote it, the work continues—I’m nonetheless engaged on attempting to see myself not as some type of savior determine, however simply one other flawed human being, doing her greatest.”
Beforehand Flock of Dimes shared the album’s first single, “Lengthy After Midnight,” by way of a music video. It was considered one of our Songs of the Week. Then she shared its second single, “Afraid,” by way of a music video. It was additionally considered one of our Songs of the Week.
The Life You Save is the third Flock of Dimes album and follows her 2021 album, Head of Roses (and its 2022 companion assortment, Head of Roses: Phantom Limb). Head of Roses was considered one of our Prime 100 Albums of 2021. Wasner produced the brand new album, with further manufacturing from Nick Sanborn. She recorded it at Betty’s in Chapel Hill, NC and Montrose Recording in Los Angeles, CA.
Wasner beforehand issued this prolonged assertion on the brand new album: “My earlier data, typically, have been a abstract of issues I had already been by way of—experiences I had noticed and mirrored upon, reporting again from some quantity of distance. However this file is completely different. It’s an try and report from within a course of that’s ongoing and unfinished, from which I’ll possible by no means absolutely emerge so long as I’m alive: my wrestle throughout the cycles of habit and co-dependency.
“I set out attempting to make a file about different folks.
“Their issues, their struggles, their addictions.
“I struggled for a few years to present myself permission to jot down about this topic—fearful that I used to be telling another person’s story, a narrative that was not mine to inform. The work felt hazy and obscured; I used to be confused, and I struggled. The great thing about songwriting, at its greatest, is that it places you in contact along with your unconscious—a spot the place you possibly can solely inform the reality. A lot of these truths had been exhausting to just accept. Some I don’t, even now, really feel absolutely able to say. However by way of this course of, I got here to grasp that I used to be scuffling with this file as a result of I wasn’t being sincere with myself. I used to be so deeply entrenched within the system wherein I used to be raised that I believed I used to be exterior of it, and the methods wherein I continued to take part remained invisible to me.
“However slowly, painstakingly, by way of this work I started to understand—I’m not aside from all of this. I’ve been performing my function from a distance, however I’m nonetheless engaged, nonetheless related:
“I’m inside it, in spite of everything.
“Because it seems, this file will not be another person’s story–it’s mine, the story of my life. A life spent believing I had escaped, and that I deserved to really feel responsible for doing so. A life wherein I believed that the best mixture of phrases, actions, effort, and expense might by some means change others’ habits. And a life wherein blindness to my very own patterns prompted me to harm others, and prevented me from discovering the real love and acceptance I yearned for.
“The assumption you could rescue others comes from a couple of place, internally talking. The half that’s best to see and acknowledge is the one which stems from love, good intentions, and a real need to supply care and assist. However there’s an uglier aspect, and that half is tougher to have a look at—the ego, the pridefulness, the assumption that you’re higher, stronger, by some means extra deserving than all the remaining. That by way of your makes an attempt to manage others’ habits, you possibly can by some means safe a way of security for your self.
“I do know the principles, however I ignore them,
I feel I’m ok to drag this off.
“Or, extra merely:
“I feel I’m god; I do know I’m not.
“For me, that was the puzzle piece that lastly made all of it make sense. Nevertheless it was additionally the piece that was the toughest to carry. It took a very long time for me to construct up sufficient love—not for others, however for myself—that acknowledging this reality wouldn’t break me. I perceive now that I’m not the savior, not the hero, not the chosen one. I’m spinning in my very own wheel, a bundle of addictions and diversifications and blind spots, similar to all people else. And there’s a magnificence to that, together with a type of freedom.
“In the long run, it’s my hope that this file exists as a testomony to the depth of my love for these I can’t save, and that it’d present some consolation for anybody who continues to be studying the way to love and stay for themselves.”
Learn our evaluate of Head of Roses right here.
Learn our The Finish interview with Wasner about endings and demise right here.
