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A new song from Ruth Garbus<\/a>, \u201cI Think I\u2019m Ready Now,\u201d is out today, heralding the singer-songwriter\u2019s follow-up to 2023 album Alive People<\/em>. The new LP, Profound<\/em>, arrives June 12, via Orindal<\/a>, and features Elie McAfee-Hahn and Nick Bisceglia on keyboards and guitar, respectively. Listen to \u201cI Think I\u2019m Ready Now\u201d below.<\/p>\n Garbus said in a press release, \u201c\u2018I Think I\u2019m Ready Now\u2019 is a song about being a ripe fruit. I guess. I mean, I wrote it in the same way I write most of my songs, except I was cackling at my audacity a little more than usual. It has a tension, partly because it feels important to me\u2014I don\u2019t know exactly why. I think there is something about expressing myself in here in a certain way, like I almost need to do it too much and it makes me uptight. When me and elie and Nick have worked on it and performed it, I have had to really go through a process with it; I had to let go a lot and just chill the eff out. It was hard. That\u2019s usually how it goes: when I think I need to be forceful, in how I\u2019m singing and\/or how I\u2019m approaching the arrangement, it turns out I just need to really back off and that\u2019s when the power comes.\u201d<\/p>\n Recorded at King Tuff<\/a>\u2019s Vermont home studio, the album includes two translations of Gabriel Faur\u00e9 compositions, \u201cClair de Lune\u201d and \u201cNocturne,\u201d drawn from Garbus\u2019 Brattleboro Music Center training with School of Song and Junko Watanabe. Since Alive People<\/em>, Garbus has released a debut album with her Earth Flower trio, alongside Philippe Melanson and Sam Gendel. Garbus\u2019 own band has a New York show lined up on May 6, at Cassette in Queens, with support from Dear Nora<\/a>.<\/p>\n