Artist:
Gracie Abrams
Genre:
Alternative/Indie Rock
Pop/Rock
Total Time:
56:08
Record Label:
Interscope
Purchase Album:
CD, Amazon Music, Vinyl,
Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
July 17, 2026
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
Gracie Abrams
Genre:
Alternative/Indie Rock
Pop/Rock
Total Time:
56:08
Record Label:
Interscope
Purchase Album:
CD, Amazon Music, Vinyl,
Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
July 17, 2026
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
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Product Description: The singer-songwriter refines her emotional pop on a deeply felt third album.
“Oh well, look at my life,” says Gracie Abrams on “Look at My Life,” one of the songs on her third album Daughter from Hell. “Bet you can’t tell but it’s kind of a bad time.”
And yet, from the outside, the singer-songwriter looks like she’s actually having kind of a great time. There’s been breakout success (following her 2024 record The Secret of Us) and A-list support, including from Taylor Swift, who invited her on The Eras Tour and collaborated with her on her Grammy-nominated 2024 hit “us.” Still, as Abrams tells Apple Music, things can be very different under the surface.
“I started writing ‘Look at My Life’ when we were on tour for The Secret of Us,” she says. “It’s about the contradictions internally and externally when something looks a certain way, but feels differently inside. Feeling confused and guilty about struggling despite the fact that something might look bright and shiny. Feeling deep gratitude while also feeling like you’re losing yourself a little bit.”
“Look at My Life” is one of the more upbeat, synth-based tracks on Daughter from Hell, which elsewhere finds Abrams embracing soft, organic sounds, helmed by her regular collaborator Aaron Dessner and anchored by her fragile, whispered vocals (the album’s credits also include Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, pop producer Dan Nigro, and her boyfriend Paul Mescal, a co-writer on “Imaginary Friend”). If “the spectrum on this album is more mountainy, kind of folky-sounding things and then stuff that’s a bit more modern,” as Abrams puts it, she thinks “What If It’s Right?”—on which she’s joined by Marcus Mumford—perfectly encapsulates the former. “Hit the Wall” meanwhile captures the latter (we’d argue “Minibar,” made with her best friend and pop talent Audrey Hobert, is another good contender).
The songs here document themes including heartbreak, betrayal, regret, the strange feeling of falling out of love without really knowing why (“Good Reason,” which recalls Mazzy Star’s “Fade into You” and houses some of this album’s most quietly devastating lyrics), and finding someone who might just be what you need (the sweet, tentative “Afflictions”). The lyricism is often intense, marked by forever feelings (“I’m gonna carry the pain/For my whole life,” she sings on “Broke My Heart”), ghosts of the past, and, curiously, a lot of knives. But Abrams can be funny too, like when she scoffs, “Is my façade crumbling? Oh/God, don’t actually answer me, Caroline” on “Look at My Life.” She’s melodramatic—but she owns it.
The making of this album was shaped, says Abrams, by “community” and the “stability and comfort of routine,” the writing mostly happening in one place after she finished touring The Secret of Us (“I felt really thrilled by the sort of mundane routine,” she says of writing an album that way for the first time). And it carries, too, “a degree of perspective that I have earned at this stage in my life, being in my mid-twenties.” That’s nowhere more evident than in the album’s title track, a nod to the difficult teenager Abrams says she was growing up.
“Daughter from Hell” finds her reckoning with her relationship with her mother, a figure she might once have pushed against but whose qualities she hopes to inherit. “Daughter from hell, but I came around/I’ll try to become you now,” she sings on the track, a lyric that she says sums up this album more than any other. “It points to evolution but also this really deep fear that I might never be able to become the woman I know my mother to be,” she says. “That lyric will always mean so much to me.”
“Oh well, look at my life,” says Gracie Abrams on “Look at My Life,” one of the songs on her third album Daughter from Hell. “Bet you can’t tell but it’s kind of a bad time.”
And yet, from the outside, the singer-songwriter looks like she’s actually having kind of a great time. There’s been breakout success (following her 2024 record The Secret of Us) and A-list support, including from Taylor Swift, who invited her on The Eras Tour and collaborated with her on her Grammy-nominated 2024 hit “us.” Still, as Abrams tells Apple Music, things can be very different under the surface.
“I started writing ‘Look at My Life’ when we were on tour for The Secret of Us,” she says. “It’s about the contradictions internally and externally when something looks a certain way, but feels differently inside. Feeling confused and guilty about struggling despite the fact that something might look bright and shiny. Feeling deep gratitude while also feeling like you’re losing yourself a little bit.”
“Look at My Life” is one of the more upbeat, synth-based tracks on Daughter from Hell, which elsewhere finds Abrams embracing soft, organic sounds, helmed by her regular collaborator Aaron Dessner and anchored by her fragile, whispered vocals (the album’s credits also include Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, pop producer Dan Nigro, and her boyfriend Paul Mescal, a co-writer on “Imaginary Friend”). If “the spectrum on this album is more mountainy, kind of folky-sounding things and then stuff that’s a bit more modern,” as Abrams puts it, she thinks “What If It’s Right?”—on which she’s joined by Marcus Mumford—perfectly encapsulates the former. “Hit the Wall” meanwhile captures the latter (we’d argue “Minibar,” made with her best friend and pop talent Audrey Hobert, is another good contender).
The songs here document themes including heartbreak, betrayal, regret, the strange feeling of falling out of love without really knowing why (“Good Reason,” which recalls Mazzy Star’s “Fade into You” and houses some of this album’s most quietly devastating lyrics), and finding someone who might just be what you need (the sweet, tentative “Afflictions”). The lyricism is often intense, marked by forever feelings (“I’m gonna carry the pain/For my whole life,” she sings on “Broke My Heart”), ghosts of the past, and, curiously, a lot of knives. But Abrams can be funny too, like when she scoffs, “Is my façade crumbling? Oh/God, don’t actually answer me, Caroline” on “Look at My Life.” She’s melodramatic—but she owns it.
The making of this album was shaped, says Abrams, by “community” and the “stability and comfort of routine,” the writing mostly happening in one place after she finished touring The Secret of Us (“I felt really thrilled by the sort of mundane routine,” she says of writing an album that way for the first time). And it carries, too, “a degree of perspective that I have earned at this stage in my life, being in my mid-twenties.” That’s nowhere more evident than in the album’s title track, a nod to the difficult teenager Abrams says she was growing up.
“Daughter from Hell” finds her reckoning with her relationship with her mother, a figure she might once have pushed against but whose qualities she hopes to inherit. “Daughter from hell, but I came around/I’ll try to become you now,” she sings on the track, a lyric that she says sums up this album more than any other. “It points to evolution but also this really deep fear that I might never be able to become the woman I know my mother to be,” she says. “That lyric will always mean so much to me.”
TRACK LIST:
1 .
Hit the Wall
(03:14)
2 . eath Wish (03:35)
3 . The Knife (03:36)
4 . aughter from Hell (04:05)
5 . Look at My Life (03:11)
6 . Good Reason (04:08)
7 . Men Like You (04:04)
8 . Sober (02:52)
9 . Broke My Heart (03:40)
10 . Mews (04:12)
11 . Minibar (02:00)
12 . Imaginary Friend (02:30)
13 . Afflictions (03:27)
14 . Humming (04:11)
15 . What If It’s Right? Gracie Abrams & Marcus Mumford (04:35)
16 .Cold Goodbyes (02:56)
2 . eath Wish (03:35)
3 . The Knife (03:36)
4 . aughter from Hell (04:05)
5 . Look at My Life (03:11)
6 . Good Reason (04:08)
7 . Men Like You (04:04)
8 . Sober (02:52)
9 . Broke My Heart (03:40)
10 . Mews (04:12)
11 . Minibar (02:00)
12 . Imaginary Friend (02:30)
13 . Afflictions (03:27)
14 . Humming (04:11)
15 . What If It’s Right? Gracie Abrams & Marcus Mumford (04:35)
16 .Cold Goodbyes (02:56)
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