New album "Sun On The Square" coming in June

The Innocence Mission will release their new album Sun On The Square as early as June 22nd and as late as July 6th depending on the retailer. The new 10 track-34 minute album will be released on MP3, CD and 12" vinyl on their new label Bella Union in the UK and back on Badman Recording Company in the US. The connection with Bella Union formed when Karen sang on the Lost Horizons track "The Places We've Been". Bella Union's new album announcement for the band can be found here. Both labels are offering pre-orders.

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The first exclusive listen can be heard at The Big Takeover Show via this link. You'll hear "Shadows of the Pines" at roughly the 48 minute mark of the podcast.

Another track, "Green Bus" can be heard at UK's Goldflakepaint webpage here.

The entire tracklist can be found at Gobuz.com.

Source: Ken Chau

New EP on the way

Karen posted a short animated video on the Innocence Mission Instagram page to announce a new 4 song EP The Snow on Pi Day. The new EP will be released on the band's web page on Tuesday, November 14th.

A post shared by the innocence mission (@theinnocencemission) on Nov 9, 2017 at 11:17am PST

Source: Marco Regali Nai, Imdiscog.com Facebook group

Karen artwork follow-up from May

Karen has updated her artwork from an earlier sketch found here with some interesting details regarding a track that has "fallen away."

another illustration for a song that's fallen away, not seeming good enough for the subject. but the idea of my mom as a guardian walking through a city, accompanied by a lion, is a recurring one for me, so I like to draw it. not always in a city, of course, but in the case of this song, one of my kids was on a field trip in baltimore, and I thought of her being there, watching over. if you are missing a parent maybe you will recognize this feeling that they are at once far away and quite nearby. my mom was a hospice nurse, and a beautiful person in all ways.

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Source: Marco Regali Nai, Imdiscog.com Facebook group

"Hello I Feel The Same" poster now available

Now available on Bandcamp.com is a high gloss 16" x 20" extended poster from Hello I Feel The Same. The poster costs $9 and an additional $5 for shipping.

Upcoming album sketch artwork

Karen posted recently on Instagram a sketch that she's been working on for the next Innocence Mission album. Since this is just a "possible cover", this could be discarded. Either way, a new album is on the horizon as recording is still not yet complete according to her post.



"Hi Everyone. Almost finished recording, so just making sketches for a possible cover. Hope you are well."

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Source: Marco Regali, Facebook

Life imitates art

Just a little imitation artwork of the We Walked In Song cover I found on Flickr that I thought I would share...