Cricket Blue
“TUESDAY I”
A Song About Saying Goodbye to Your Own Body
New Single Out Now via Bridge & Key Artist Collective
Acclaimed chamber folk duo Cricket Blue have released “Tuesday I,” the second single from their forthcoming sophomore album Sweet Animal, arriving September 18 via Bridge & Key artist collective. The song follows July’s double single, “Ella I” and “You.”
Sweet Animal is structured in two halves, each closing with a death: Laura Heaberlin’s character in “Tuesday I,” and Taylor Smith’s in the album’s later “Tuesday II.” Featuring the record’s title lyric, “Tuesday I” honors the body as a lifelong companion too often taken for granted.
“Taylor’s ‘Tuesday’ envisions a mass extinction event, so his vision of his own death is saying goodbye to the entire world,” Laura explains. “I wrote my ‘Tuesday’ in reaction to Taylor’s, so I tried to make it the smallest death possible: not even saying goodbye to your loved ones, but the idea of saying goodbye to your own body that you have never been without.”
When we wake up, final Tuesday,
will I know how to leave you behind?
Sweet animal, mechanical,
To have thought you were me and that you were mine
PRODUCTION
Arranged by Laura Heaberlin and Taylor Smith
Mixed, electronic production and additional arrangements by Christopher Hawthorn
Mastered by Rob Murray
Written by Laura Heaberlin and Taylor Smith.
About Cricket Blue
Laura Heaberlin and Taylor Smith met as students at Middlebury College in Vermont, bonding as members of an a cappella group over shared touchstones like Neutral Milk Hotel, Anaïs Mitchell, Sufjan Stevens, and Joanna Newsom. After graduation, both settled in Burlington and gradually began collaborating on one another’s songs, coalescing into Cricket Blue.
Their 2019 debut, Serotinalia, earned national attention for its literary lyricism and distinctive harmonies, with NPR Music calling the duo “master storytellers.” Cricket Blue was voted Vermont’s Best Folk Group in the 2019 Seven Daysie Awards, and Laura has also appeared solo on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Sweet Animal features contributions from Goose drummer Cotter Ellis, Clogs bassoonist Rachael Elliott, and Vermont Symphony Orchestra principal cellist John Dunlop.
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