Brandi Carlile Is Coming Back to Her Solo Career With New Album ‘Returning to Myself’

After a few years spent away from her solo career, Brandi Carlile is ready to give fans her long-awaited eighth studio album.

On Wednesday (Sept. 3), Carlile announced that her new album Returning to Myself is set to be released on Oct. 24 via Interscope Records and Lost Highway. The 10-track project was produced by Carlile and a coterie of A-list producers, including Andrew Watt, Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon.

To celebrate the news, Carlile also debuted the title track from her new project, alongside a black-and-white music video. Throughout the Floria Sigismondi-directed clip, Carlile can be seen wandering alone along the coastline and around a large metal structure, while singing over an acoustic guitar about the fear of being alone with oneself. “Returning to myself is such a lonely thing to do,” Carlile yodels on the song’s chorus. “But it’s the only thing to do.”

In a statement released alongside the news, Carlile reflected on the meaning behind the album and song’s titles, saying that coming back to her solo music proved harder than she thought it would be. “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,” she wrote. “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.”

Carlile has certainly spent the last few years celebrating that togetherness through her collaborative projects with musical icons, including Joni Mitchell, for her live Joni Jams series; Tanya Tucker, for her album While I’m Living and subsequent documentary The Return of Tanya Tucker; and Elton John, for the pair’s collaborative album Who Believes In Angels? from earlier this year.

Watch the video for Carlile’s new song Returning to Myself, and read the official tracklist for her new album of the same name below.

Returning to Myself tracklist: