Humbird brings Morning When It Comes home to the Fine Line

Siri Undlin's fourth Humbird album, twelve "secular hymns" made through illness, gets its hometown night on Friday, Nov. 13.

A week from tonight, Siri Undlin brings the newest Humbird record home. Humbird plays the Fine Line on Friday, Nov. 13, at 8 p.m., with tickets through AXS. It's the Minneapolis stop on the tour behind Morning When It Comes, which came out Sept. 25 on Nettwerk, and it lands about seven weeks after release, long enough for the songs to have settled in with listeners and the band.

Humbird has a strong claim to being a Twin Cities project. In our records the act plays Minneapolis–St. Paul more than any other market, 14 shows and counting. A Fine Line headline date on the heels of a new album is not a club warm-up. It's a homecoming with something to show for it.

The record is a heavy one, handled gently. Folk Alley describes it as Humbird's fourth full-length: twelve songs that the album's materials call "secular hymns," written while Undlin was going through a wave of mental and physical illness, and looking to the night sky for some comfort. The lead single, "Hey Big Dipper," makes that idea plain, and "Daughter of Empire" is another early look at the album. It was recorded in Eau Claire, Wis., just over the border, and it marks Undlin's debut as a co-producer. On a record this personal, having a hand on the controls matters.

That growth has happened in public. Nettwerk signed Humbird in 2023 with the single "Cornfields and Roadkill," and the label's announcement leaned into what it called Midwest mysticism. The 2024 album *Right On* followed, a record KAXE called a breakout. Then came *Astrovan: The Love Song Vignettes* in early 2025. *Morning When It Comes* builds on all of that and turns inward, toward something closer to prayer. Three releases in roughly three years with the same label is a steady run, and this is the one where Undlin has the most riding on it.

The Fine Line is a good fit for that. The downtown Minneapolis room holds about 650, small enough that a quiet song stays quiet and big enough that a full band can open up. Songs written as hymns usually ask a room to listen, and a Friday crowd that has come specifically for Humbird is likely to do just that.

If you've only known Humbird from the earlier records, this is the album to catch up on before next Friday. The Bandcamp page has the back catalog. Starting with "Hey Big Dipper" and working outward is a fair way in. If you've been following along for a while, a hometown night with a new record behind it is the kind of show you'll want to be able to say you were at.

Twelve songs that the album's materials call "secular hymns," written while Undlin was going through a wave of mental and physical illness.

Check the ticket page for door time. Go early, get close and bring a sweater: it's November in Minneapolis, and these are songs about looking up at the sky.

Sources: Folk Alley: Fresh Cuts – Humbird, Morning When It Comes (folkalley.com); Folk Alley: Fresh Cuts Friday 176 (folkalley.com); Nettwerk: Humbird Nods To Midwest Mysticism With 'Cornfields and Roadkill'; Signs To Nettwerk (nettwerk.com); Nettwerk: Humbird Returns with Astrovan: The Love Song Vignettes (nettwerk.com); KAXE: Right On, breakout album from Minnesota singer-songwriter Humbird (kaxe.org); Isthmus: Humbird, bad posture club (tour listing) (isthmus.com); Humbird on Bandcamp (humbird.bandcamp.com); AXS: Humbird at Fine Line (axs.com); JamBase listing: Humbird at Fine Line Music Cafe (jambase.com)