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WILLOW announces sixth album empathogen, releases new single b i g f e e l i n g s

Following 2022 rock album <COPINGMECHANISM>, WILLOW is seemingly shifting genres once more with her upcoming sixth LP empathogen…

WILLOW announces sixth album empathogen, releases new single b i g f e e l i n g s
Words:
Emily Carter

WILLOW has announced her brand-new album empathogen.

Record number six from the superstar musician follows 2022’s rocky <COPINGMECHANISM> and the previous year’s pop-punk-leaning lately I feel EVERYTHING, though it sounds as though this new LP will hear her switch genres once again and embrace a different mindset (last year she told Rolling Stone that “there was so much anger” during the recording of <COPINGMECHANISM>, not to mention she was “almost never sober in the studio” – whereas this time, “I was sober for every single recording session”).

empathogen is due out on May 3 and will feature collabs with Jon Batiste and St. Vincent, as well as newly-released single b i g f e e l i n g s which you can check out below.

WILLOW calls her latest track “dense and dissonant but also darkly beautiful”, explaining that, “I wrote b i g f e e l i n g s during a week where I was coming to terms with my own emotional patterns that I hadn’t known were there.

“Musically, it has a darkness and complexity that reflects what we all experience in our own minds. The song is about accepting those intense feelings that you have no idea what to do with.”

See the empathogen tracklist:

1. Home feat. Jon Batiste
2. Ancient Girl
3. Symptom Of Life
4. The Fear Is Not Real
5. False Self
6. Pain for Fun feat. St Vincent
7. No Words 1 ; 2
8. Down
9. Run!
10. Between I and She
11. I Know That Face
12. b i g f e e l i n g s

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