Brandi Carlile Announces Eighth Studio Album 'Returning To Myself', Shares Title Track
Thursday, 04 September 2025
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Collier Schorr
Brandi Carlile has announced her eighth studio album.
'Returning To Myself', her first solo release in four years, will arrive through Interscope Records/Lost Highway on October 24. It was produced by the Oscar-nominated, 11-time Grammy Award-winner alongside a team of top-tier collaborators, including Andrew Watt, Aaron Dessner of The National and Bon Iver's Justin Vernon.
Recorded with her long-time bandmates Phil and Tim Hanseroth, and SistaStrings (Monique and Chauntee Ross), the project also includes contributions from Josh Klinghoffer, Chad Smith, Matt Chamberlain, Dave Mackay, Rob Moose, Blake Mills, Mark Isham and Stewart Cole. In a statement about the record, Carlile shared:
"I’m not my favorite person to spend my time with. Returning to myself is not just a lonely, but a painfully boring thing to do. So much so that I’m actually not at all interested in doing it.
"I prefer to double, triple, and quadruple down on co-dependency, which I’ve come to learn that outside of 12-Step programs and junior high school relationships, isn’t really that unhealthy at all…
"For me the key to learning to ‘be alone’ is not being alone at all. It’s being alone in a crowded room. It’s hearing an unexpected doorbell ring and wondering who has shown up to watch me read my book and bite my nails all day. That a guest can be a deep lean-in over a cheap bottle of wine or simply an eyebrow raise and a gesture toward the refrigerator while I play Zelda…where I totally choose myself with someone so close to me I can hear them relax.
"People want to be together in silence more than we allow in our time. It’s falling deeply in love with the car wheels on a gravel road. The possibility of the visitor. The “not being alone-ness” of it all…
"Togetherness has given me everything I love about being alive. Starting with my original family in a single wide mobile home, gathered around a wood stove all the way to living with my band, haunting my wife everywhere she goes, raising my children on a tour bus, learning at the feet of Joni Mitchell, to making music with my greatest hero of all time, Elton John.
"Why is it heroic to untether, when the tense work of togetherness is so much more interesting?
"…because I don’t want to do it. Because I don’t want to return to myself.
"And that’s why I will."
To mark the announcement, the singer-songwriter has released the record's stripped back, introspective title track, which comes paired with a black-and-white music video directed by Floria Sigismondi.
The new album follows 'Who Believes in Angels?', Carlile's collaborative project with Elton John, which came out in April. Her latest solo LP is 2021's 'In These Silent Days'.
She'll be accompanied by her band for three nights at Colorado's Red Rocks Amphitheatre this weekend. Additional tour dates are to be announced soon.
'Returning To Myself' tracklist:
1. Returning To Myself
2. Human
3. A Woman Oversees
4. A War With Time
5. Anniversary
6. Church & State
7. Joni
8. You Without Me
9. No One Knows Us
10. A Long Goodbye
Brandi Carlile Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Fri September 05 2025 - DENVER Colorado - Red Rocks Amphitheatre (USA)
Sat September 06 2025 - DENVER Colorado - Red Rocks Amphitheatre (USA)
Sun September 07 2025 - DENVER Colorado - Red Rocks Amphitheatre (USA)
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