[Cover photo credit to Martina Hoogland Ivanow]

Rebekka Karijord has announced the upcoming release of her new album The Bell Tower due out April 25, 2025 via Bella Union. The album is her second on Bella Union following her collaborative project Complete Mountain Almanac, with Bryce and Aaron Dessner of The National, whose self-titled debut was released in January 2022.

Rebekka has also shared first single “Sanctuary”, a track that encompasses The Bell Tower’s sonic overarching theme. It addresses “the beauty of the natural world, and the grief involved with watching it slowly be erased.”

She says:

“Sanctuary” is one of those songs that wrote itself. It’s a song for my daughters–they’re seven and ten–and they grew up in nature, nature is their sanctuary. That’s their safe place. They both know what climate change is, but how do you as a grown-up tell a child how drastic it is? It’s so massive to comprehend, and it’s impossible as a parent to look your kid in the eyes and say, ‘This is not going to be like this forever,’ you know?

“Sanctuary” tries to “imagine a path forward for those of us who cannot bear the effects of climate change, and what our current efforts mean to future generations.”