Today, Los Angeles based musician A.O. Gerber announces her sophomore album, Meet Me At The Gloaming, out 14th October via Father / Daughter Records (US) and Hand In Hive (UK). She also announces a UK Tour (tickets on-sale tomorrow at 10am HERE), and shares new single ‘Hunger’, a tender and expressive reflection on the nuance of the opposing forces we face in our lives and culture, and its striking video directed by Vivian Wolfson.
Speaking on the track Gerber says: “This song sort of wrote itself in the midst of a really devastating fire season in LA. I’d been thinking a lot about the opposing forces of desire and negation, all the different ways we both consume and restrict as individuals and as a culture. I’ve spent so much of my life vacillating between these polarities, making myself small physically and spiritually. I haven’t always had the ability to critique that impulse in myself but it felt good to do that here.”
On her new album Meet Me At The Gloaming, A.O. Gerber carefully grapples with the constraints she was taught as a child to reach for the flourishing that comes when we look past the black and white, and into the grey gauze of the in-between. “I was thinking about how damaging it can be to exist in that binary space of good and evil,”
Gerber explains. “When we see everything in either/or’s, we lose the nuance and complexity that make life rich enough to be worth living.”
By interlocking memory and imagination, Gerber crafts a gleaming future, where the light and the dark don’t just coexist––they create a new colour entirely.
Her debut LP Another Place To Need (2020) garnered critical acclaim for its candid, orchestral ruminations on splintered relationships and the cage of overthinking.
While that record took three years to complete, and saw her collaborate with much of her musical community in Los Angeles and the Bay Area – including Sasami, Madeline Kenney, Marina Allen and Noah Weinman (Runnner) – Gerber stripped back the team for Meet Me At The Gloaming.
Once again co-producing with Madeline Kenney, she shunned the usual process of seeking constant feedback, and instead leaned into a more isolated process, later producing much of the record at home. On nights and weekends in-between their day jobs, Alex Oñate joined Gerber and Kenney on drums to record, while Gerber also collaborated remotely with Megan Benavente on bass and Lauren Elizabeth Baba on violin and viola.
This somewhat secluded process serves as a mirror to the deeply introspective and thoughtful nature of Meet Me At The Gloaming, where Gerber explores her upbringing, much of which took place under the watchful gaze of a spiritual teacher who led her mother to completely uproot their lives, and move the family from Northern California to Southern Oregon. But this isn’t a scathing composition of redemption or revenge; instead, Gerber parses out her own history with care and grace.
Meet Me At The Gloaming is certainly an album that pierces grief head-on but it’s not without hope or certainty. Like curtains strong enough to block the view, but thin enough to let in the light, Gerber is reclaiming the meaning of goodness, where the harsh overwhelming brightness is dimmed to a beautiful, iridescent blue. During the gloaming we are between two spaces, two worlds, two selves and it’s here that we can fully embrace everything that we are.
Catch A.O. Gerber on her UK tour later this year, with tickets on sale tomorrow at 10amhere.
21st Oct – Los Angeles, CA @ The Airliner
3rd Nov – Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool
11th Nov – Manchester, UK @ Gullivers
12th Nov – Glasgow, UK @ The Great Western
13th Nov – Newcastle, UK @ Cumberland Arms
15th Nov – Bristol, UK @ Crofters Rights
16th Nov – London, UK @ Folklore
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