Spellling has introduced a brand new album: Portrait of My Heart is out March 28 through Sacred Bones, and it marks Chrystia Cabral’s first actually new full-length since her 2021 LP The Turning Wheel. Cabral has additionally shared lead single and title monitor “Portrait of My Heart,” together with a music video directed by Ambar Navarro. Verify that out under, together with a string of tour dates kicking off in April.
“When the lyrics for the title monitor got here collectively, it actually began to morph all the pieces on this extra energetic course, as a substitute of this extra whimsical panorama that I’ve labored with earlier than,” Cabral mentioned of the lead single.
She continued: “It began to turn into extra pushed, increased vitality, extra centered. And I’ve a giant affection for it due to that. I like that it feels prefer it withstood transformation, which is one thing I all the time wish to aspire to with issues that I make. I need them to have this sense of timelessness. It might exist like this, or like that, or like this, however that is the one for proper now. Navarro’s accompanying video explores the obsession that may eat an artist within the midst of creation.
Cabral enlisted touring bandmates (performing because the Thriller College) Wyatt Overson (guitar), Patrick Shelley (drums), and Giulio Xavier Cetto (bass) to file Portrait of My Coronary heart, in addition to mixing engineer Drew Vandenberg, producer Psymun, and SZA collaborator Rob Bisel.
Portrait of My Coronary heart additionally contains vocal contributions from Toro y Moi’s Chaz Bear, who sings on “Mount Analogue,” and instrumentals from Turnstile guitarist Pat McCrory (“Alibi”) and Zulus Braxton Marcellous (“Drain”).
Revisit Pitchfork’s 2021 interview “How Dracula, Tarot Cards, and Drinking in the Shower Inspired Spellling’s New Album.”
