After four years of non-stop touring, Gracie Abrams didn’t expect new music to come to her so quickly. But she’s back with a new album, Daughter From Hell, out July 17—and she talks about it in Vogue’s Summer 2026 cover story.
“I had no plans in this case to jump in as quickly as we ended up doing it. But my collaborator, producer, and dear friend Aaron Dessner, who I’ve worked with for six years now… he has superpowers,” Abrams tells senior editor Marley Marius and Vogue’s global head of social media, Sam Sussman. “Whenever we’re in the same room, even if I do feel, like, silent to my core, whenever he starts playing something, it sparks my imagination.”
While working on the album at Electric Lady Studios in New York, Abrams says the first single, “Hit the Wall,” came to her as though from a spirit. “Do you know when you sometimes wake up and you feel as if you’re being haunted by a spirit? Or, like, a relative who’s no longer [alive]?” asks Abrams. “I kind of just felt weighed down when I was walking to the studio and I started tearing up. And it was at this period where I wasn’t crying very much. And I was like, something’s blocking me. Like, what is going on?”
Abrams says that once she heard a loop of what would later become the song, all the pieces started coming together. “It was a nice place to put all of these—not, like, self-deprecating thoughts, but just all of the dark-cloud energy into one place. And then when I was done with it, it made me feel like a teenager again, where I would write something and then … yield.”
Also on today’s episode, Chloe sits down with Marley and Sam to discuss the news from over the weekend, including the Tony wins and Dua Lipa’s Italian wedding. They also talk about the American Style project that Vogue collaborated on with Biz Sherbert—and listen to voice memos from two enthusiastic finalists.
