We Are Together Again

We Are Together Again ultimately takes its place as another beautiful entry in Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s everchanging, ever-engrossing discography.

We Are Together Again, strengthened by communal tendencies, meets bombs in Iran and executions in Minneapolis not with clenched fists of protest, but with hugs. LP #31 closes, appropriately book-ended, with the lion, but there is no tempest, no rage. Instead, Bonnie “Prince” Billy embraces intimacy.

Between bookending tracks Why Is The Lion?/Bride Of The Lion, reflections on modern fars both, (Everybody's Got A) Friend Named Joe and Vietnam Sunshine meditate gracefully and playfully on friendship and commitment. Spare settings offer breathing room, with strings, sax, flute and more colouring in the songs' fringes. [Mar 2026, p.103]

While Oldham frames his Bonnie 'Prince' Billy alias as a group name this time out, it's a collaboration which enhances his long-running idiosyncrasies rather than blandifies them. [Apr 2026, p.92]

The most straightforward of Oldham's catalogue, and yet still rich with the oneiric and mysterious qualities that drew so many listeners to his art. [Apr 2026, p.20]

The supplementary strings augment the lived-in, genial atmosphere these songs exude. For an album that emphasizes the sweet, tender qualities of togetherness and community, it’s a welcome, apt embellishment.

We Are Together Again is the latest instalment of his slow musical evolution, a balancing of longstanding tropes of hardship and sorrow with the new human connection.