Searows Releases Haunting New Single 'Dirt' Ahead of Album

Searows, the project of Pacific Northwest singer-songwriter and guitarist Alec Duckart, shares ‘Dirt,’ the haunting new single from his forthcoming new album, Death in the Business of Whaling, due January 23, 2026 via Last Recordings On Earth. The track is released today alongside a black and white video by Karlee Boon and Marlowe Ostara. “Dirt” follows the album’s previously released singles “Dearly Missed” and “Photograph of a Cyclone.”

“This song is about inevitability,” shares Duckart. “We all have the knowledge that we and everything around us is finite, and we all have a different way of dealing with that fact. It isn’t something that has ever been comfortable for me, but I can’t spend my life uncomfortable with it. We all inevitably return to the dirt, but you can’t ease the anxiety over it by trying to dig the hole early. If we can acknowledge the end, maybe we can remember we’re alive now.”

To celebrate the album’s release, Searows is also announcing a string of in-store record release shows at the end of the month in New York, Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle. All dates below and additional info available HERE.

WATCH THE “DIRT” VIDEO

Though Death in the Business of Whaling arrives as Searows’ second album, it’s the product of many firsts, including his first time recording outside the creative cocoon of his bedroom. His 2022 debut Guard Dog was written, recorded and self-produced in Duckart’s Portland home and independently released with little expectation as to how it would be received. The music soon found a passionate audience that were already sharing snippets of Duckart’s music via communities on TikTok, as well as co-signs from artists like Ethel Cain, Gracie Abrams and Robin Pecknold.

When the time came to commit the collection of ideas for his new record to tape, he set up shop in a converted horse barn outside of Seattle, keen to harness a greater sense of scale and space in the creation of the music, working this time with co-producer Trevor Spencer (Father John Misty, Beach House, Mary Lattimore) to expand his creative vision.

Tour Dates:

1/23 – New York, NY @ Rough Trade – SOLD OUT

1/25 – Los Angeles, CA @ Fingerprints

1/28 – Portland, OR @ Music Millennium

1/29 – Seattle, WA @ Easy Street

Tour poster for Searows' album 'Death in the Business of Whaling', featuring dates for instore performances in various cities, with a photo of the artist near water.

WATCH THE PREVIOUSLY RELEASED VIDEOS FOR

“DEARLY MISSED” & “PHOTOGRAPH OF A CYCLONE”

“I had really wonderfully connective and intimate experiences sharing my first couple of projects with live audiences. Those projects were very personal and vulnerable and revealing my life and specific experiences to an audience began to feel a bit dissonant and exposing,” he explains. “One of my favourite things about music is its ability to connect people. It has done so for me time and time again and it has been so special to see my own writing do that for people too. I just began to learn that for myself, there were specifics that I wanted to keep for myself.”

As a result, Duckart became interested in writing songs that read more like folklore. The songs became a vessel for digging deep and exploring his life and point of view, but in a way that spoke outwardly more symbolically than literally. “Something your subconscious understands before your conscious mind does. Visceral rather than literal. And that relationship to our deeper selves, our subconscious, our souls, is a major theme of the album for me. Most of these songs are about the different ways we all bump up against the human condition. Our spirit, the shadow self, our egos, trauma, love and fate. How we cope with our experiences and how we connect and take care of one another in an exceedingly dark and violent world. This record is still deeply personal to me. But it is an attempt to reveal my cards in a more coded, symbolic manner.”