New York, NY – Today, the powerful and poetic songwriter Pieta Brown releases "Glitter Town," the newest single from her upcoming album Dreamin’ Of via Righteous Babe Records on August 21, 2026. Listen to "Glitter Town" HERE. Pre-order the album Dreamin' Of HERE.
"I wrote this song the last time I was in Australia," Brown remembers. "I had heard some news on the ride from the Sydney airport to the hotel about a man who had 'escaped enslavement' and finally had a little apartment but couldn’t really pay his bills. I remember I was feeling very blue in general, too. The song landed in a rush.... It felt very magical and expansive as it all started weaving in. I needed that track to be anthemic! And somehow we got there!"
"Glitter Town" is the latest release in a winning streak of indie-folk offerings from Pieta's upcoming album Dreamin' Of, including the double-single "Love Letters" + "Was The One" and the album's title track "Dreamin' Of."
The "Love Letters (Official Music Video)" serves as a love letter in itself to New York City, Brown's former home and the site of her first-ever show.
"I filmed this video just last week as I wandered around the city that felt so unified - such a powerful thing to feel in the world right now," Brown recalls. "I also want to take this moment to say thank you again to all the fans and friends that have sent and handed me handwritten letters in recent years...can you know how much they mean to me??"
In the official music video for "Was The One," Brown artfully plays with time, distance, and mood as she revisits her many past lives.
"This song came to me when I picked up a little nylon string guitar a friend had given me," Brown reflects. "And when I first heard what Jeremy Ylvisaker played I cried, actually - somehow with his guitars he translated some of the most jagged emotion layered in the song. 'Was the one'…once I did this…once I was that, too. But in all of those things I was and did I was often dreaming of being something or somewhere or someone else. At some point though I started to realize these ways of dreaming of being or doing something else can be really healing places you know?"
The magnetic and ethereal 10-song album Dreamin' Of was produced by Bon Iver’s S.Carey and Mike Lewis alongside the songwriter, recorded in Justin Vernon’s studio, and in a delicate, cinematic song cycle, it tackles themes including Nature, Love, Loss, War and Addiction. Pieta’s unmistakabl
In addition to S.Carey and Mike Lewis, a handful of friends bring their unique contributions to the album including Jeremy Ylvisaker, Bertand Belin, Amos Lee, Bo Ramsey, Barbara Jean Meyers, Bryan Vanderpool, and Romain Collin.
Like dreams, the songs twist and turn and surprise; from the wondrously intimate frontiers of “Nothin’ But Trouble” and “Someday Someday” to the enigmatic harmony-drenched “Laura” and “Was The One,” in which Pieta artfully plays with time, distance, and mood. From the majestic poetry of “Love Letters” and “So This May I” to the pop-tinged pent-up anthemic glimmers of the album’s luminous closer “Glitter Town.”
A spellbinding ode to the heartache of the times and a true album standout is Pieta’s “Drinkin’ Side” duet with Amos Lee. “Something freeing happens when we sing together,” she says.
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“Tell me what you’re dreamin’ of…let me be an outlaw for your love,” sings Pieta on the title track. “This song came in in a dream-like-fever-state late one night after I happened to read an article about a father who was somehow urging love and tenderness after losing his kids to war,” the songwriter says. “I instantly kind of fell outside of myself and this song came in - with the melody. That guitar line brought the words. There are so many people around the world living so closely with war. Inside and out. But one thing I love about songs is they give us open places to dream, you know?? Different kinds of worlds. Collective medicine of frequency.”
“Days after the song came in I drove 12 hours straight to Mike Lewis’ basement in the woods of Northern Minnesota to try recording with Mike, Sean (S. Carey), and engineer Brett Bullion,” she continues. “In just a couple of experimental days and nights it felt like the heart of an album might be coming into being…but when I left the session I wasn’t sure if or when or how I would try recording again. One day months later Sean sent me a demo version of some of his production ideas for the ‘Dreamin’ Of’ track we had recorded in Mike’s basement. As soon as I heard it I could feel the album would come in. I’ll never forget walking in the sun and listening to the ‘Dreamin’ Of’ version Sean sent. And I really do love to hear about people’s dreams.
Hailed as a “self-styled poetess, folk goddess, and country waif” by the BBC, Pieta Brown first came to international prominence with the release of her self-titled debut in 2002. Since then she has relentlessly expanded her artistic prowess, releasing multiple albums, EPs, and singles earning widespread acclaim from The New York Times, NPR Music, Stereogum, Billboard, B
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