Tasha Announces You Are Spring, Releases ‘Clarion’ and ‘Spring’ Featuring L’Rain & Jamila Woods

There’s a late-winter patience to Tasha’s new announcement: You Are Spring, a follow-up to 2024’s All This And So Much More, arrives 6/26 via Bayonet. Today she shared two songs from the record — “Clarion” and “Spring” — the latter bringing L’Rain and Jamila Woods into close harmonies with her voice. If you’ve been tracking the subtle shifts in her work, these tracks tighten that thread: more road, more intimacy, a steadier sense of arrival.

Last month she released “Summer,” and now the project takes its name literally and metaphorically. The new material was cut in Los Angeles with Gregory Uhlman at the board, the same producer who’s worked with Meg Duffy and Perfume Genius. The result feels like someone who has recently moved to New York observing what it means to be in motion — physically and emotionally — and trying to name the feeling.

“While making the long drive between New York and Chicago (which I did 3 times in the span of 2 months in 2024) I repeatedly took note of a sign for the Pennsylvania town of Clarion and each time thought to myself, ‘That would make a great name for a song.’ So I decided to make a song with that name. A song about coming and going, about wanting to change your life but not quite knowing how you’re going to do it, but feeling suddenly on the edge of figuring it out. The goodness is coming, it’s around the corner, you can feel it!”

That passage is Tasha describing “Clarion,” which arrives with a music video directed by Mars Alba. The song itself holds that on-the-road restlessness: small, decisive imagery and a patient vocal that lets the words land. “Spring,” directed by Stella Rae Binion, leans into community. With L’Rain and Jamila Woods alongside her, the track opens into a layered conversation — voices answering and leaning into one another, a place where lines about survival and small consolations become chorus. Tasha credits Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem “To The Young Who Want To Die” as an inspiration for “Spring,” and you can hear that care in the way the song refuses to let itself be quiet.

Both videos are spare: they don’t interrupt the songs so much as stage them — movement and stillness, mouths and streets. There’s a domestic, lived-in tenderness here that will likely translate well to Tasha’s shows, where she’s become known for turning quiet moments into communal ones. Fans who have seen her in intimate rooms will recognize the way these arrangements leave space for the audience’s breath; these newer tracks expand that space without losing it.

Tracklist:

1. Spring (Feat. Jamila Woods & L’Rain)
2. Clarion
3. Perfect
4. Promise
5. Ending
6. Summer
7. Lucky
8. Actor
9. Special
10. Porous
11. Quick!

You Are Spring is out June 26 via Bayonet. Pre-orders are live now. If the two singles are any indication, Tasha’s next record will be one of those quiet, stubbornly consoling albums that people keep playing in the kitchen as they make coffee and try to reckon with the day.