Gracie Abrams announces Daughter From Hell as her next indie-pop chapter

Gracie Abrams announced Daughter From Hell on 12 May, confirming her third studio album for release on 17 July, with lead single Hit The Wall arriving this week. Abrams sits in the wider pop world now, but her songwriting DNA still belongs close to the emotionally exposed indie-pop lane: intimate confession, bedroom-scale vulnerability and a strong collaborator thread through Aaron Dessner of The National.

That Dessner connection matters because it has helped shape Abrams’ previous albums into carefully textured, folk-pop-adjacent records rather than anonymous streaming-era pop packages. Daughter From Hell already sounds like a shift in mood. The title suggests something sharper and more theatrical than the soft-focus heartbreak language that first defined her public image, while the rollout around Hit The Wall points toward a darker, more symbolic new phase.

For an indie music digest, this is best treated as indie-pop-adjacent rather than underground, but it is still relevant because Abrams’ audience overlaps heavily with fans of diaristic alternative pop, Phoebe Bridgers, boygenius, Taylor Swift’s Aaron Dessner era and the broader sad-girl songwriting universe. The question now is whether Daughter From Hell deepens that lane or deliberately burns parts of it down. Source: https://www.coupdemainmagazine.com/gracie-abrams/20319 ; Additional source: https://happymag.tv/gracie-abrams-daughter-from-hell-album-hit-the-wall-release-2026/