Sara Bareilles Is Back ‘Home’ On New LP

Sara Bareilles Is Back ‘Home’ On New LP

Sara Bareilles Is Back ‘Home’ On New LP

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Sara Bareilles is returning with her first album in seven years, Good Grief, which is due Aug. 28 via Epic Records. The 14-track collection is previewed today (June 3) by the new single “Home,” a meditation on loss, connection and resilience that sets the tone for what Bareilles describes as her most personal work in years.

Good Grief marks Bareilles’ first full-length studio album since 2019’s Grammy-winning Amidst the Chaos and arrives as the latest chapter in a career that has increasingly expanded beyond the recording studio to encompass Broadway, television, film and publishing. “This whole collection of songs felt like transmissions rather than a deliberate attempt to make sense of the world,” Bareilles says. “My deepest hope is that Good Grief provides some kind of comfort or catharsis.”

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“Home” was inspired by a conversation between Stephen Colbert and Anderson Cooper about grief and loss on Cooper’s podcast. Bareilles says the song serves as an entry point into the themes that shape the record. “It feels like an invitation and a tone setter for the specificity and depth of this record,” she explains. “It just feels really essential right now. In order for us as humans to really know and understand each other, we have to listen to each other’s stories.”

According to Bareilles, Good Grief grapples directly with loss while remaining anchored in hope. The album spans deeply personal territory, from tributes to friends she has lost to songs centered on women’s rights and moments of unexpected levity amid difficult circumstances.

Produced by Bareilles herself, the majority of the album was recorded over six days at Dreamland Recording Studios in Woodstock, N.Y., alongside a core group of longtime collaborators including drummer Charley Drayton, guitarist Butterfly Boucher, keyboardist Misty Boyce, bassist Solomon Dorsey, multi-instrumentalist Rob Moose and engineer/co-producer Jonathan Low. Additional sessions took place with co-producer Aaron Dessner of the National at his Long Pond Studio in the Hudson Valley.

The album also features contributions from Brandi Carlile, Ingrid Michaelson, late poet and activist Andrea Gibson, Megan Falley and actor Joe Tippett.

Good Grief will be accompanied by a new documentary, Sara Bareilles: Good Grief, which premieres this week at the Tribeca Festival. Directed by Josh Alexander, the film chronicles Bareilles’ return to the studio and documents the making of the album.

Bareilles will also return to the road this fall for the Good Grief tour, her first major outing in several years. The Live Nation-produced trek begins Sept. 9 in Boston and will bring her to theaters in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and other cities across North America.

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