Karen Dió announce new EP ‘Fugaz’

Titled Fugaz, the upcoming release from the Brazilian punk-rock artist is set for release on August 21st via Hopeless Records. The EP marks her sophomore release, following her debut My World, and continues her rapid ascent after the viral success of Sick Ride and high-profile shows alongside artists including LIMP BIZKIT, SUM 41, and GARBAGE.

Exploring themes of time, personal freedom, and impermanence, Fugaz reflects Dió’s transient upbringing and evolving artistic identity, offering a deeper and more introspective body of work shaped by lived experience.

Alongside the announcement, she has released the new single, Free Yourself. Speaking about the track, she shares, “funnily enough, Free Yourself is a song that I dreamed of. Most of the time I unfortunately forget the songs by the time I’m awake, but I’m glad I remembered this one. Later the same day, I decided to work on it and the melody of the chorus immediately came. When I showed the embryo of it to Matt (Bigland of DINOSAUR PILE, Karen’s husband and writing-partner), he immediately was like, ‘That’s a hit!’ so we started to write the rest. During the whole process of writing Free Yourself we would remind ourselves to be completely free with our creativity and, to be honest, to try being ridiculous sometimes. One of my favourite parts of the song came from an improvisation where I said “Jeans are dangerous,” and Matt thought it was great, but he thought I said “Genes are dangerous.” We loved both quotes, but we decided to go with “Genes are dangerous” because it felt more provocative.”

Watch the official music video for Free Yourself here:

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new EP below:

Track list:

1. Euphoria
2. Free Yourself
3. Choke
4. Crawling
5. Rat Race
6. Fugaz

Fugaz is set for release on August 21st via Hopeless Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be accessed here.

For more information on KAREN DIÓ like her official page on Facebook.