Preempting her first full length in two decades, Carly Simon releases the lead single, ‘Howl.’
Written as a letter to a friend whose lover has just left them, the 82-year old legendary musician said “Howl lives in that space between betrayal and forgiveness, where anger has to be voiced before it can be released.” “It’s about letting the frustration out, so it doesn’t sit and simmer. The song begins in anger, but it moves toward forgiveness and speaks to any situation where trust has been broken.”
With lyrics that include “Howl like the wind/Roar like the river/Wail like the rain/Cry, shout, and shiver,” before it says, “Call love a liar,” Simon wrote and recorded the Comes in Waves LP at her studio in Martha’s Vineyard.
Containing nine new songs, plus two songs she’d previously penned and revisited, Carly’s children, son Ben Taylor, and daughter, Sally Taylor, are featured on the album, and her daughter produced the album artwork as well.
In a statement about the collection, the artist’s record label said the theme of the album is “resetting oneself,” but “does not attempt to recreate the past,” and “continues the conversation Simon has been having with her audience for decades, one grounded in truth, vulnerability, and a refusal to simplify emotion. It is a reminder of an artist still fully engaged with her craft, still asking questions, and still finding new ways to articulate what it means to live, to love, and to let go.”
Comes in Waves drops on August 14, 2026.
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Author: Al Dente
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