Esther Rose links with Hurray For The Riff Raff's Alynda Segarra on new album title-track "Safe to Run"

After announcing Safe to Run with the lead single "Chet Baker" last month, Rose has delivered the title-track as a second taster of the record, which features Alynda Segarra of Hurray For The Riff Raff, and is teamed with a Rett Rogers-directed video.

"Sonically, Ross [Farbe] and I threw every idea we had on this song and it absorbed everything as if it were just this mega-powerful container," Rose says of the single. "We built so many layers into the outro. I love Ross’s counter-melody on the Mellotron and the high-pitched 1-note synth drone which he refers to as ‘the angels.’ Nick Cohon, of Bay Area death metal band Cormorant, brought the doom by arranging the ascending guitar outro. It was so meaningful to collaborate with Alynda Segarra and to hear the song start to fly. Alynda’s voice is this expertly tuned muscle; when they sing, you feel everything."

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.