The return of Lavender Diamond

Lavender Diamond's first studio album in 8 years Now Is The Time is prefaced with the new single "This Is How We Rise." The Los Angeles-based trio of Becky Stark, Steve Gregoropoulos, and Ron Regé, Jr. will release the album on December 4, 2020 via Petaluma Records.

Listen to "This Is How We Rise" via YouTube:
https://youtu.be/MgxiIGnLOjI

"Right before our current storm of catastrophe these songs came pouring in to us. These songs of healing for a world in crisis," explains Becky Stark. "Crisis holds profound opportunity for healing and transformation. Now is the most powerful time we have ever known to transform our world and to build justice, peace and prosperity for all by living in harmony and with love for the earth, embodying the wisdom of equality and respect for all."

The band captured the core of the album in just two days, with the material written well before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

"I came to this realization that there’s medicine in the music itself," says Stark. "It can lift people up and heal them and point them toward transformation, and that led me to this tremendously powerful need to start writing and recording again."

Now Is The Time was written and produced entirely by Lavender Diamond, and mixed by Tucker Martine at Flora Recording & Playback in Portland, OR. The album features contributions from Nathaniel Walcott (Bright Eyes), Sasami, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Josh Klinghoffer.

Earlier this year, the band released the official video for "Look Through The Window," which was embraced by American Songwriter, BrooklynVegan, Stereogum, Pitchfork and many more.

Track listing:

1) Look Through The Window
2) This Is How We Rise
3) Ocean and Ground
4) In The Garden
5) Flashback
6) Now Is The Time
7) In The Middle
8) New Religion
9) Straight Through The Night
10) Please Plant The Seeds
11) Calling On My Nation