Kelly Lee Owens has announced a new record: Inner Song is out May 1 via Smalltown Supersound. Owens has also shared a new song called “Melt!,” along with a film directed by Laneya Billingsley (aka Billie0cean). Watch that below.
The album, which follows Owens’ 2017 self-titled debut, features a cover of Radiohead’s “Arpeggi” and an appearance from John Cale. Find physical editions of Inner Song at Rough Trade. (Pitchfork may earn a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our site.)
In a statement, Owens said “the hardest three years of my life” led up to Inner Song. She added, “My creative life and everything I’d worked for up to that point was deeply impacted. I wasn’t sure if I could make anything anymore, and it took quite a lot of courage to get to a point where I could create again.”
The album’s title, borrowed from an album by the free-jazz musician Alan Silva, “really reflects what it felt like to make this record,” Owens said. “I did a lot of inner work in the past few years, and this is a true reflection of that.”
On May 9, Kelly Lee Owens will perform at Pitchfork Music Festival Berlin 2020. Tickets are on sale now.
Revisit the 2017 Rising interview “Kelly Lee Owens’ Techno Daydreams.”
Inner Song:
01 Arpeggi
02 On
03 Melt!
04 Re-Wild
05 Jeanette
06 L.I.N.E.
07 Corner of My Sky
08 Night
09 Flow
10 Wake-Up
