THE LINES IN MY HANDS

The new album by Carlisle Evans Peck

Journeying through a mythic forest, Carlisle Evans-Peck’s The Lines in my Hands guides the listener along a winding path of struggle, delight, into the tender shelter within the self. The Danse Macabre invites the listener into a dark fête, and the album spirals inward, each track revealing a deeper truth. Lover, I am an Anthem and My Time allow us to crackle by the fire, while My Beast invites us to run. With playful drippy phrasing, Evans-Peck casts a spell of the transforming journey, reminding us to let the path change us, wherever we find ourselves upon it.

-Kier Zimmerman

In the early months of 2020, fresh from heartbreak and raw with the terror of an unknown pandemic and the sudden loss of life-as-we-know-it, I found myself unable to touch the piano, an instrument that had been my heart and soul. Something different was wanting to emerge and be spoken, and from that the first songs of “The Lines in My Hands” unfolded. These are wandering the duality of life and death, the two sides of the same cosmic coin, and the grappling with transience and mortality that came with the pandemic - both the physical deaths, and the death of the lives lived in the before times. These songs were were written in lockdown, recorded primarily in an attic, and bear the unmistakable quiet ephemera of a home.

Death is a dance, death is a lover, death is a parent, death is a child, death is an unnamed beast, death is within, death is in living. And, in the end, I'm just still trying to make sense of it all.

The most stunning musicians in Minneapolis brought these quiet songs to life, allowing them to blossom in the most achingly beautiful ways. These are some of my favorite songs I've ever written, and I feel they will be with me for a long time.

credits

released December 5, 2025

Carlisle Evans Peck - vocals, chorus, guitar, piano, harmonium, bandurria
Willow Waters - double bass, mandolin, electric guitar, horns, chorus
Peter Morrow - acoustic and electric guitars, chorus
Lars Johnson - drums (2, 3, 5, 6, 9), chorus
Zack Baltich - drums (4, 7, 8)
Anna Dolde - saxophone (1, 4, 7, 9)
Kasi Misseldine - vocals (1, 9, 10)
Aubrey Weger - violin (2, 6, 8)
Mikey Marget - cello (2, 6, 8)
Joe Peterson - organ (9)

Recorded at The Nettle Bed, Minneapolis MN, March 2023 - March 2025
Piano and track #10 recorded at Grape Escape, St. Paul MN, March 2024 - January 2025
Organ (track 9) recorded at Calvary Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, MN January 2024

All songs written by Carlisle Evans Peck
Engineered by Carlisle Evans Peck, Peter Morrow, Willow Waters, and Matt Olson
Mixing by Jason McGlone at The Hideaway Studios, Minneapolis, MN
Mastered by Rob Schlette at Anthem Mastering
Cover photo by Madison Gies-Guy

Released on Aura Vortex Records

Thank you:
Purple Haus: Abby-Zak LeGare, Alex Blust
Round River: David Abasz, Lise Abasz, Colby Abasz, Scooby,
The Nettle Bed: Elle Thoni, Alex Griffin, Belle Furman, Elli Gurfein, Bryce Burton, Madison Gies-Guy
Mom, Dad, Emma
Freya, and Penelope