Esther Rose announces new album with lead single "Chet Baker"

"Chet Baker" is Rose's first release since her 2021 How Many More Times covers EP, and is accompanied by a Joshua Shoemaker-directed video.

Rose says of the new single, "Someone sent me a DM, asking 'do you remember me.' I was transported into a decade-old memory; a weird weekend with a crew of dangerous college preps, a car crash. What came out is this short study of my townie life in Ann Arbor. As I was writing this song, it occurred to me how lucky I was to have survived that time of wilful recklessness. I wanted to empathise with my younger self, like, 'it’s alright, you were 23. You were out of control. I got you now. You’re okay'."

Safe to Run will follow Rose's 2021 album How Many Times, and was written over the space of two years in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She recorded the Ross Farbe-produced album between New Orleans, LA and Placitas, New Mexico.

Rose adds, "My challenge every time I picked up the pen was: not another heartbreak song, look around you. Writing from depths never explored and feeling sometimes like I was losing my mind, a softness unfurled. I’ve moved out of a chaotic, transitional place. I’m not running anymore. This album feels different to me than everything I’ve made before it. But who knows? I’ve traded hurricanes for wildfires."

Tracklist:

1. Stay
2. Chet Baker
3. Spider
4. Safe to Run (feat. Hurray For The Riff Raff)
5. St. Francis Waltz
6. New Magic II
7. Dream Girl
8. Insecure
9. Levee Song
10. Full Value
11. Arm’s Length