Gracie Abrams Sets July Release for Daughter From Hell, Shares “Hit The Wall”

Gracie Abrams is lining up her third album, Daughter From Hell, for July 17, and the first taste of it arrived Thursday with “Hit The Wall.” The project reunites her with Aaron Dessner, whose presence has become central to the shape of Abrams’ recent work, including 2024’s The Secret Of Us. The title alone has already done a fair amount of work online, but the details around the album suggest something more specific than just a provocative name: a continued collaboration that has been building for years, and now looks set to widen rather than repeat itself.

Dessner announced the album on Instagram and framed it as the result of a long, patient process. In his post, he wrote that he was “so so so so so beyond excited” to share that “Daughter from Hell” would arrive everywhere on July 17, with “Hit the Wall” following that Thursday night. He also noted that it had been six years since he and Abrams first started making songs together, and described the album as something they began two years ago. According to Dessner, the pair started on the same day they recorded That’s So True and I Told You Things at Electric Lady Studios in New York, with multiple songs on the album made during that stretch. From there, he said, they kept working in Long Pond, London, and back at Electric Lady.

“We will share more details soon on all the dear friends who helped us along the way.”

He also claimed the record pushes into “uncharted waters sonically” and sharpens Abrams’ writing in a way that feels “elevated in every way.” That kind of language is common enough in album rollout season, but the personnel around “Hit The Wall” gives the single a little more weight on arrival. Alongside Aaron Dessner, the track also credits Bryce Dessner, Justin Vernon, and Ben Lanz, which places Abrams in familiar company for the atmospheric, tightly built pop-folk space she has been occupying, though not without room for change.

The Renell Medrano-directed video for “Hit The Wall” is out now, and it serves as the first real checkpoint for what Daughter From Hell might sound like once it lands on Interscope on July 17. It also arrives as Abrams keeps moving beyond music in visible ways. She’s set to make her film acting debut in Halina Reijn’s A24-produced Please, and Tom Burke recently joined the cast, according to Variety.