Sydney Sprague announces new album ‘somebody in hell loves you’

June 30, 2023 James Weaver

SYDNEY SPRAGUE has announced a new album!

Titled somebody in hell loves you, the upcoming album from the Arizona-based singer-songwriter is the follow-up to 2021’s maybe i will see you at the end of the world, and is scheduled to be released in September this year, via Rude Records.

Speaking about the upcoming new album, Sydney says, “when I started writing songs for this record during covid lockdown it felt like the movie had ended and the credits had rolled on life but we were all still here for some reason. Everything was just floating in this void and because of that I felt like I had all the time in the world to just do whatever I wanted. It was weirdly the freest I’ve ever felt. Writing became a way to entertain myself and make myself laugh instead of a way to wallow. I spent a lot of time reflecting on the past and the people around me and processing things I’d never been able to. I was able to be more honest than I’d ever been in my songs. The fact that I’m able to share them now feels a little scary because when I was writing them they were really just for me, but I hope they can bring people the same sense of escape that they brought me.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the singer-songwriter has released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming new album; overkill. The new song is the second single to be released from the upcoming album, following on from smiley face, which was released back in May.

Speaking about the new song, she says, “the lyrics of the song are about loving someone who is way too good for you and doing way too much to make it work, feeling like you will do whatever you have to make someone stay even if its hell for you. It really comes through in the punchline of the chorus – ‘I would die to be by your side and to keep you standing still, yeah that’s overkill‘.”

Watch the official music video for overkill here: