Lael Neale has announced a new album, Altogether Stranger. The follow-up to 2023’s Star Eaters Delight is set for release on May 2 via Sub Pop. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the searching, hypnotic new single ‘Tell Me How to Be Here’. Check it out below.
Altogether Stranger marks Neale’s third collaboration with producer Guy Blakeslee. The pair also filmed the music video for ‘Tell Me How to Be Here’ in Los Angeles. “On returning to Los Angeles I felt like an extraterrestrial landing on a dystopian planet so I’m writing from the perspective of a being from another realm witnessing the peculiarities of humanity,” the singer-songwriter explained in a press release.
“In the course of writing this record there was one song I could never finish,” Neale added. “The main line was, ‘I don’t belong here, I am an altogether stranger.’ I meant ‘stranger’ as a noun, not an adjective. Even though I abandoned the song, the lost chorus stuck with me & became the unspoken motif of the record.”
Revisit our Artist Spotlight interview with Lael Neale.
Altogether Stranger Cover Artwork:
Altogether Stranger Tracklist:
1. Wild Waters
2. All Good Things Will Come To Pass
3. Down On The Freeway
4. Sleep Through The Long Night
5. Come On
6. Tell Me How To Be Here
7. New Ages
8. All Is Never Lost
9. There From Here
