Watchhouse | photo courtesy of the artist
Watchhouse on their latest album, ‘Rituals’
The folk duo’s new album is about lowering your defenses in a post-pandemic world.
A few years ago, Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz rechristened their band with a new name, Watchhouse. It was a bold move for the duo, formerly known as Mandolin Orange, that invited a lot of questions.
“I feel like we have had friends in other bands come and be, like, ‘We really wanna talk to you about this because we think we really wanna do it too.’ And my knee jerk reaction is don’t do it,” Frantz jokes.
In this session, Watchhouse joins us to talk about their new album, Rituals. It’s ultimately a record about healing and lowering your defenses in a post-pandemic world.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod and Will Loftus. The web story was created by Miguel Perez. Our engineer is Chris Williams and our programming and booking coordinator is Chelsea Johnson.