Sister. Announce New Album Two Birds

Indie rock outfit Sister. just announced the upcoming release of their sophomore LP Two Birds. Due out on July 11, 2025 Via Mtn Laurel Recording Co., the announcement follows the release of the project’s first single “Blood in the Vines,” which made our Best New Songs list earlier this year.

Recently formed into a quartet, the announcement coincides with the release of the album’s title track. With soft hits of a drum, Hannah Pruzinsky’s clear voice opens up an expansive soundscape in “Two Birds,” singing of the growing pains that follow inevitable change. Electric guitar slips in beneath the jagged rhythms, courtesy of James Chrisman, echoing gently amongst flashes of gritty feedback, pitched synth, and subdued vocal harmonies. The resulting slowcore sound is arresting in its soft, shady subtleties. It’s a sound as patient and open as the sky.

“Hannah and I wrote Two Birds on the night we moved out of our old apartment to live apart from each other for the first time in 9 years. We tried to go to a friend’s birthday party and both cried too much so had to leave immediately and sit down in our packed up musicroom and create something to share,” Ceci Sturman said in a press release. “At the core of anything we make we are trying to draw lines in the sand about what our relationship means to each other and then we draw them again and again and again.”

“Two Birds” is an extension of the album’s theme as a whole: the complexity of relationships. The idea for the project came from lead guitarist James Chrisman. “We were all in the car on tour this past month talking about relationships, as we always do. James said something like the best kinds of relationships are ones that can’t fit squarely into one category—lovers, friends, relationships that truly become something bigger and other than,” the band said.