Time might be infinite, but we sure aren't. That's the takeaway from "10,000 Year Old Woman," the latest single from recent Band To Watch honoree Long Neck's upcoming full-length. It's a song about waiting and not getting what you wanted and, when you finally do, knowing that it's far too late. Lily Mastrodimos paints a picture of drunken confessions and bitterly cold nights, and of a love that maybe could have been were it not for timing and stubbornness and circumstance. "You took my heart for the bleeding/ But it has been several seasons/ I'm not the 10,000 year old woman/ And I am through with the waiting/ You had your chances for taking..." she sings on top of an unadorned acoustic guitar, a stark contrast to the album's other two propulsive singles, "Mine/Yours" and "Elizabeth." It's the closing track on Will This Do?, and it ends on a note of fortified independence: "Let me walk home alone/ Let me walk without you." Listen via GoldFlakePaint below.
Tour dates:
01/11 Washington, DC @ Comet Ping Pong
01/12 Charlottesville, VA @ Tea Bazaar
01/13 Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
01/14 Asheville, NC @ Fleetwoods
01/15 Athens, GA @ Flicker Bar
01/16 Tallahassee, FL @ The Bark
01/17 Birmingham, AL @ The Firehouse
01/19 Nashville, TN @ TBA
01/20 St. Louis, MO @ Beefs
01/21 Cedar Rapids, IA @ The Hive Collective
01/22 Madison, WI @ Williamson Magnetic
01/23 Chicago, IL @ Subterranean Downstairs
01/24 Ann Arbor, MI @ Blue House
01/25 Athens, OH @ house show
01/26 Pittsburgh, PA @ house show
01/27 Philadelphia, PA @ TBA
01/28 Jersey City, NJ @ Monty Hall
Will This Do? is out 1/26 via Tiny Engines. Pre-order it here.
