Carmen Quill returns with Harmless, her second solo album

Carmen Quill released her second solo album, Harmless, on November 9. It runs nine tracks and works within traditional song forms rather than against them. The vocals are what it's built around.

Quill is a sidewoman first: she plays bass in the post-rock band Scree and in the art-pop trio tilt. Scree bandmates Ryan El-Solh on guitar and Jason Burger on drums play on the record, and the title track carries Ivan Arteaga on clarinet and Dana Lyn on viola. The song "Across the waves" draws its lyrics from Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse.

Harmless follows her 2021 solo debut, Don't Get Comfy / Nowhere. She put out other leader work earlier this year: I'll Be Thinking of You on Thursday (Live at Close Up), cut at a small Lower East Side club with pianist Jacob Sacks and drummer Billy Hart. She has since moved to New York and stays in the Seattle ensemble The Sky Is a Suitcase, which released El Jardin this summer.

No tour dates tied to the record are announced.