Ruby Friedman Orchestra Dropping ‘Chimes After Midnight’ via Label 51 Recordings

Chimes After Midnight, the new full-length album from Ruby Friedman Orchestra, will be released by Label 51 Recordings on June 13th. The first single from the record, “From the Storm,” is out now.

Singer-songwriter Ruby Friedman says of her new Label 51 Recordings album Chimes After Midnight:

“I’m giving voice to remarkable people who time will erase otherwise, ordinary men and women who changed history. Like chimes after midnight, theirs are the voices you would not hear — people in the dark.”

The Portland-based Ruby Friedman Orchestra’s album comprises ten new compositions penned or co-authored by the pyrotechnic-voiced Friedman. The majority of the tracks were co-produced and arranged by Friedman and multi-instrumentalist Ben Landsverk, the co-writer of “Honeystomach (The Flight of Connie Converse),” “Flower Whore,” and “When the Hangman.” Connie and Graham Yost (creator of the hit shows Slow Horses, Silo, and Justified) are co-executive producers of the album.

Chimes After Midnight is the successor to Friedman’s highly regarded 2016 album Gem, which was praised in Magnet by veteran critic j. poet for its “quiet songs of devastation.” In the interim, she has released the tartly funny single “Ain’t Got Your Money” (featured on the Disney+ series The Mighty Ducks); the stormy Los Angeles radio hit “Un4Given,” and the Mitchell Froom-produced “Teardrop Trailer,” originally written for Wynonna Judd. In 2022, she performed “Fire Down Below” in the trailer for the concluding season of the hit Netflix series Peaky Blinders.