“This Thread Is A Green Street“ is the first single from the first studio album from the innocence mission in four years and it has arrived accompanied by a video. The new album, titled Midwinter Swimmers has a vintage Folk/Pop feel and arrives on November 29, 2024, via Therese Records in North America, Bella Union in the U.K. and PVine in Japan.

Karen Peris describes the single as:

…a sort of envisioning the landscape as a world of doorways, that might allow us to locate memory or to be nearer in some way to people we miss. And the transportive quality of scenes we might come upon in the natural world, or even in everyday objects- a sewing thread when I’m mending something could remind me of a street map. One of the things about recording it was, how to find this feeling inside the sound, and how to find the half-remembered beauty of sing-alongs of our 1970’s childhoods. There’s a search in recording that goes on being elusive, in a good way.

“This Thread…” is the first of a trio of songs on the new album about “missing a loved one who is away, and of how love can transcend distance,” Karen Peris says.