It’s been over four years since we got new music from Daughter Of Swords, the project of NC-based singer-songwriter and Mountain Man member Alex Sauser-Monnig. The debut full-length Dawnbringer arrived in 2019, and some songs were shared in 2020. Today, they’re back with “Alone Together.”

“‘Alone Together’ is a song about reckoning with the need to connect when the rest of your life is locked in and satisfying,” Sauser-Monning explained. “The cracking of the veneer of self sufficiency. Its content was mirrored in its recording, in the way recording a song demands vulnerability and community to bring it into fullness and reality.”

The tune is a playful blast of candid indie rock abounding with endearing lyrics: “But I don’t really want to see anybody/ Except my friends and my dog and my paycheck money,” Sauser-Monnig drawls. It was made with a bunch of friends: Amelia Meath (Sylvan Esso, Mountain Man), Nick Sanborn (Sylvan Esso, Made Of Oak), Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak, Flock Of Dimes), TJ Maiani (Weyes Blood, Neneh Cherry), and Caleb Wright (Hippo Campus, Samia).

The next Daughter Of Swords record is expected next year. For now, check out “Alone Together” below.

“Alone Together” is out now on Psychic Hotline.