Rose Cousins Shares “That’s How Long (I’ve Waited For Your Love)” + New Album & Tour Dates
February 14, 2025 BY Emma Orland
Today, acclaimed Grammy-nominated and multi-JUNO Award winning singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Rose Cousins shares another new song from her upcoming Conditions of Love – Vol 1, which arrives March 14, 2025. “That’s How Long (I’ve Waited For Your Love)” is a poetic analogy for a seemingly unquantifiable length of time; the length of a longing. What are the ingredients of waiting? Listen HERE.
“The concept of time endlessly fascinates me,” explains Cousins. “I keep looking for how the heart experiences ineffable amounts of time. How longing can last forever and loss can speed time up but also grind it to a halt. Love pulls us into the present and presence. It’s incredible how something we can’t see has such a deep influence on how we feel.”
MORE ABOUT CONDITIONS OF LOVE – VOL 1
On her new album, Rose holds her listeners’ hands as she guides them on a journey through the “conditions of love.” Ever the emotional explorer, the Nova-Scotia-based artist seeks truth, in all its imperfection, in the depths of humans’ most complicated of emotions: love. The journey results in a striking clarity, and it’s the gift of that clarity that brings on surprising tears.
Rose shares, “Love feels great and makes us ridiculous. It’s tiring and intense, joyful and devastating. Falling in love, being in love and staying in love are all such different things. Being human is emotionally complicated enough without attempting to relate to another who is just as complex, and in the most vulnerable of arenas: romance. Love is wondrous and absurd (and very hard). Humour helps.”
Co-produced with trusted friend and longtime bandmate Joshua Van Tassel, Conditions of Love – Vol. 1 sees Rose return to her first love, the piano. “Piano is where I feel the most connected. It’s the best partner in expressing the emotion I’m mining,” she shares. She first introduced the upcoming body of work with the gorgeous, piano-driven ballad “Forget Me Not,” followed by the slow-burning, nostalgic “Borrowed Light,” the artful “Denouement,” the beautiful and emotional “K’s Waltz,” and the uplifting “I Believe in Love (and it’s very hard),” which Rose has called the cornerstone of the upcoming album.
Rose Cousins’ songwriting plumbs the depths of the human condition. Her work has garnered her two JUNO Awards (2013’s We Have Made a Spark & 2021’s Bravado), two Canadian Folk Music Awards, eleven East Coast Music Awards and one Grammy nomination (2018’s Natural Conclusion), along with praise from the likes of the CBC, No Depression, LA Times, Associated Press, Billboard, Folk Alley, and NPR, who raved “Cousins’ disarmingly fluid vocal tone has the ability to convey the most internalized feelings without an ounce of fuss.” Over the years, she has shared stages with Patty Griffin, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Jann Arden, Kathleen Edwards, Joe Henry and Anais Mitchell, and her music has fittingly underscored scenes from notable TV shows including Grey’s Anatomy, Fire Country, Batwoman and Heartland.
ROSE COUSINS NORTH AMERICAN TOUR (MORE DATES TBA)
March 6 – Chicago, IL @ Evanston SPACE
March 7 – Madison, WI @ The Bur Oak
March 8 – Minneapolis, MN @ Cedar Cultural Centre
March 29 – Fredericton, NB @ Wilmot United Church
April 1 – Sherwood Park, AB @ Festival Place Theatre
April 2 – Calgary, AB @ National Music Centre
April 3 – Saskatoon, SK @ The Basement
April 5 – Winnipeg, MB @ West End Cultural Centre
April 7 – Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz
April 8 – Kingston, ON @ The Broom Factory
April 9 – Peterborough, ON @ Market Hall Performing Arts Center
April 11 – Toronto, ON @ Masonic Temple – The Concert Hall
April 12 – Hamilton, ON @ The Westdale
April 13 – Ottawa, ON @ National Arts Centre
April 16 – Charlottetown, PE @ Confederation Centre Of The Arts
April 17 – Halifax, NS @ Rebecca Cohn Auditorium
April 18 – Moncton, NB @ Capitol Theatre (Moncton)
April 19 – Saint John, NB @ Imperial Theatre
May 7 – Vienna, VA (DC) @ Jammin Java
May 8 – Brooklyn, NY @ Littlefield
May 9 – Northampton, MA @ Iron Hors
May 10 – Groton, MA @ Groton Hill Music Center
June 13 – St John’s, NL @ Majestic Theatre
Conditions of Love – Vol 1 Tracklist
01 To Be Born (overture)
02 Forget Me Not
03 I Believe in Love (and it’s very hard)
04 Denouement
05 That’s How Long (I’ve waited for your love)
06 Needed You
07 Wolf and Man
08 K’s Waltz
09 Borrowed Light
10 How is this (the last time)
Stay tuned for more music and news from Rose Cousins.
