Former member of Arcade Fire, Will Butler, will play the Róisin Dubh with his new band Sister Squares next Tuesday, July 23, at 7.30pm.
Butler recently released his new solo album Willows with Sister Squares. This is the first new material from Butler since May 2022, and the debut release with his new bandmates.
A New York–based band rooted in dance and theatre, Sister Squares is Sara Dobbs, Julie Shore, Jenny Shore, and Miles Francis, who have toured with Will Butler since 2015.
Co-produced with Miles Francis, title track ‘Willows’ is a ghostly, oceanic song built around a towering chorus where Butler is joined in full force by Sister Squares. “There’s something eternally hopeful about the sound of voices singing in a room together,” he says. “‘Humans singing together in a room’ is probably the prime philosophical building block of this band.”
“‘Willows’ is about leaving the past in the past,” Butler says of the song. “Nostalgia is sweet, but it's a poison. The scene of the song is someone driving off into the wilderness to meet an old woman—one of the Fates, like in a folk tale. And maybe he wants to be young again, or wants things back the way they used to be. And she says: Anything can happen, for a price...”
Tickets €26/24 from www.roisindubh.net
