Empress Of has announced new album Dream House, the follow-up to 2024’s For Your Consideration. Out Sept 18 via Giant Music, the record reflects on life after the Altadena fires that destroyed Lorely Rodriguez’s home—a topic explored on the single “Wild Storm,” released today with a Mitch deQuilettes-directed video shot in the aftermath. She will celebrate the album release with a show at New York’s Music Hall of Williamsburg on September 30. As well as the video, check out the art and tracklist—which includes a feature from Cecile Believe, who collaborated across the album—below. Blood Orange also features on the record.
“Wild Storm” was actually written years ago, a press release notes, but rediscovered by Rodriguez as she processed the devastation of the fires. Of the album, she said, “One afternoon I made a little voice memo while playing a piano mumbling the phrase, ‘I wanna build a dream for you.’ That’s when this whole thing kind of started. Like a little spark. Someone said a phoenix isn’t born, it’s remembered and in making this album I remembered why I make music.”
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