Portland experimental artist Kyle Bates (b.k.a. Drowse) will unveil their third studio album in November.

Announced today, Wane into It will be released on November 11 via The Flenser. The album opener “Untrue In Headphones” features labelmate Midwife on vocals and guitar. A music video directed by Bates can be seen below.

Bates said this about the new song:

“'Untrue in Headphones' was the first song that I wrote for Wane into It. In fall 2019, I captured the Bass VI parts DI through a preamp in my apartment because I couldn’t make too much noise. I recorded in different spaces and it kept expanding: live vibraphone arrangements, textures from Mills College’s Buchla 100s, field recordings of my van sampled into percussion etc… I asked Madeline from Midwife to collaborate on guitar and vocals because I knew her haunting style would add otherworldly colors to the sound. Working with her was surreal.
The song is about ambiguity, listening to Burial’s Untrue on a train to anesthetize myself, and being ok with our inability to fully know another person—finding the value in it. The accompanying video was shot during a residency in La Barre, France, and on the Oregon Coast. It invokes the difficulty of being present: thoughts fragmenting through time and place."

Pre-orders for Wane Into It can be made here. The record follows Drowser’s 2019 studio album Light Mirror.