Cut Worms shares new single, “Dream”

The track follows previous singles “Windows on the World” and “Evil Twin” from Cut Worms’ upcoming album Transmitter, produced by Jeff Tweedy. “Dream” is bit of a pivot on the album, arriving as a piano ballad on which Clarke unpacks the process of making peace with the challenge of learning how communicate with those closest to him.

Discussing the song, Clarke explains: “This one’s sort of an outlier on the record. I started writing it one day a year or so ago when my friend Antony kindly let me into his church when nobody was there to use the piano for a few hours. Later on, I recorded it myself at home, and in a different, secret piano dungeon hidden somewhere in New York City (real pianos are hard to come by when you live here, in my experience).

“It was originally called “Cut Worms’ 1,111th Dream” but nobody wanted to say all that so it got abbreviated to “Dream,” understandably so, if not the most original title. I played the piano and bass and did the arrangement of electrical strings and one horn. Then I enlisted the very talented Jesse Kotansky, who Adam Green introduced me to, to make some real-life string recordings and had Tom the engineer blend them together in the final mix. I think it came out well.”