Falcon Jane Announces 'Legacy' Out Aug 23rd | Presents "How Dare You"

Falcon Jane, today announces their new album Legacy and shares the latest single “How Dare You”. Legacy is set for release on August 23rd via Darling Recordings. The alt-country LP sees lead singer and songwriter Sara May expound on her own origin story through the great archetypes of country music: the drinker, the vagabond, the absent father and of course the broken hearted.

Watch/Share: Falcon Jane “How Dare You”

“How Dare You” finds May reaching into the depths of her own broken heart. “The song was written from a place of absolute weakness - the bottom of the pit of unrequited love, explains May. “But music has always been my way of finding my power. So I found this song within me and all the words I wanted to say, the questions I wanted to ask, and the notes I wanted to yell. The result is an angry, powerful song that reckons with the pain but doesn't hold back.”

The accompanying video was filmed by director Sarafina Bortolon-Vettor (of Bonnie Trash) who describes the clip “as a surreal, gothic-country take on a love story gone wrong. The main character is on the hunt to stop the heartbreaker from, well, breaking more hearts. She grabs a shovel, hops on her horse, and travels to the one place where she can finally put an end to it all.”

May presents all of the characters on Legacy with a clarity and empathy that feels almost transgressive—a loving touch that crosses our rural / urban divides. But these are Sara’s stories too: her rural childhood, her move to Toronto, her current home in a small town, and her life on the road.

Legacy sees May alongside her partner and bandmate Andrew McArthur transformed both lyrically and musically. Together with producer José Contreras (By Divine Right), Falcon Jane refined their sound—pushing toward folk and country like contemporaries Waxahatchee and Angel Olsen. May’s voice, the one constant from 2015’s Alive n Well EP, through the dream pop of her 2018 debut album Feelin’ Freaky, to the sprawling indie rock of 2020’s Faith, is more powerful here, sitting atop the warm, Nashville-leaning production.

Legacy is Falcon Jane’s return, recollection, reinvention and culmination. It’s a perfect moment looking both forward and backward towards the same North Star.