"Letter to the Last Generation" is an album with an atmosphere, a delicate blend of acoustic instruments and synths, and Simone White’s “sweetly airy and hypnotic” (NPR) voice. A natural evolution from her last studio album Silver Silver, White presents a collection of songs tinged with ache, longing and doubt in an apocalyptic landscape in the not-too-distant future.

“The song ‘Letter to the Last Generation’ is, like the title says, written to the future, an apology of sorts,” she explains. “And through that, I hope, a kind of startling viewpoint for us in the present. What would you say to children a hundred years from now? How would you explain what we're doing?”

The album’s unofficial global theme is also reflected in the song “Tiny Drop,” featuring collaboration with fellow singer-songwriter Andrew Bird on violin, which premiered at UN World Environment Day in 2018.

“I wrote ‘Tiny Drop’ as an anti-war song, but the music video for it focuses on the effects of plastic pollution in the ocean,” White says. “We're all tiny drops that make up the world. Every small action you make, every vibration affects the whole. "

While White’s activist voice is loud, "Letter to the Last Generation" will remind listeners of the “cathartic intimacy” and “mesmerizing intelligence” (MOJO) of her masterful songwriting, sung with a voice “like ether” (NPR).

“‘Letter to the Last Generation’ was originally going to be a one-off song,” White says of the tune that inspired the album. “But that day of recording felt so right. It was so much fun, we were playing live, everyone in the room. I felt excited about making a record for the first time in ages and I only really heard the kind of album I wanted to make on that day.”

That particular group of musicians includes Jebin Bruni (Aimee Mann, Meshell Ndegeocello), producer Pete Min, who co-wrote three of the album’s songs with White, and adored multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter, Andrew Bird. Grammy®-nominated bassist Kaveh Rastegar (Bruno Mars, CeeLo Green) also appears on the album.

“Kaveh was asking me how I came up with the melody of the first line of (album track) ‘Genuine Fake,’” White recalls. “He was grooving with it, playing it on the bass, and I answered him, ‘I don’t know, it was just suddenly there!’”

While the press has rightly praised White’s vocals and lyrics throughout the years, it is arguably these “suddenly there” melodies that keep people coming back.

"Letter to the Last Generation," the sixth album by once again NYC-based (after 15 years in Los Angeles) singer-songwriter Simone White, arrives on October 18th.