"So Help Me God was built slowly and intentionally across seven years of transformation. Sonically and emotionally it holds so many different worlds at once-devotion and desire, collapse and becoming-trying to make sense of what it means to break, to believe, to long for something without seeing it clearly, and to be reborn again and again and again."
Kelsey Lu's long-awaited second album So Help Me God arrives June 12 on Dirty Hit, marking their follow-up to 2019's debut. Co-produced by Lu with Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman, the project features prominent collaborators including Kim Gordon, Sampha, Kamasi Washington, and Lady Jess. The lead single "Running to Pain" showcases Lu's theatrical chamber-pop style with a video directed by Savanah Leaf. Lu describes the album as intentionally constructed over seven years, blending devotion and desire, collapse and becoming, exploring themes of breaking, belief, longing, and rebirth. Between albums, Lu remained active through the EP Blood Transfusion, collaborations with Jamie xx, Yves Tumor and Boys Noize, and film scores for Netflix's Daughters and A24's Earth Mama. Lu will perform new material at Blue Note Jazz Clubs in New York and Los Angeles.
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