Natalie Merchant unveils new single ‘Come on, Aphrodite’ + live dates

‘Come On, Aphrodite’, the new single from Natalie Merchant featuring singer Abena Koomson-Davis (Resistance Revival Chorus), is out now; listen/share here. It is the first track released from Merchant’s forthcoming album, Keep Your Courage, and establishes the record’s themes of love and passion as essential to the human experience.

Merchant’s ninth solo studio album, and the latest new material since 2014’s self-titled record, Keep Your Courage is set for release on April 14 on Nonesuch Records.

“‘Come On, Aphrodite’ is an invocation to the goddess of love and passion,” says Merchant. “In the lyrics, I list all the clichés we use to describe falling in love: being drunk and blind, over the moon, weak in the knees, and half out of our minds. For the Greeks, when the spirit of love descended, it was seen as a kind of assault; you would become powerless against an all-consuming, sweet madness. Amazingly, humans still crave it, in spite of the perils.”

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