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M. Ward Offers Up Animated Video For New Single 'The First Time I Ran Away'

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Andrew Bird
M. Ward
Zooey Deschanel
Bon Iver
She & Him

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First, we'll see if Bon Iver can pull an Arcade Fire at this year's Grammy Awards on Feb. 12 (four nominations -- including Record and Song of the Year nods -- should yield something, right?). Next, whistling aficionado Andrew Bird will release his seventh solo album, "Break It Yourself," on March 6. And finally, the deep-throated, acoustic-strumming M. Ward will ditch She & Him bandmate Zooey Deschanel and spend some time alone again: his eighth solo album, "A Wasteland Companion," arrives April 10 on Merge.

 

The first single off aforementioned M. Ward album -- titled "The First Time I Ran Away" -- arrived today via a cartoon video filled with cute animals and soothing, muted colors. Watch the Joel Trussell-directed clip below.

 

 

It was a big day for solo artists who go by their first initials: R. Kelly also dropped a new single today.

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