Sara Bareilles: Good Grief (2LP) [EPIC]

Why you'll love it

Sara Bareilles' first album in seven years, as a 2LP set, co-produced with Aaron Dessner of The National and Jonathan Low. It's 14 songs about grief and getting through it, led by the singles "Home" and "Still Crying".

This edition

• 2LP set
• 14 tracks across four sides
• Recorded at Dreamland in Woodstock and Long Pond in the Hudson Valley

About the album

Bareilles has called the songs on Good Grief "transmissions rather than a deliberate attempt to make sense of the world", and the idea, she said, was to offer some comfort or catharsis to anyone working their way through a loss. "Home", the first single, grew out of a conversation she heard between Stephen Colbert and Anderson Cooper on Cooper's podcast about grief, and "Just a Kid" arrived with a video on the day the album came out.

Working with Dessner at his Long Pond studio and at Dreamland in Woodstock gives the record a warm, roomy sound that suits her piano and that clear, unhurried voice. A documentary film and a fall tour went with it, and you can tell from the songs that she's in no rush. After seven years, frankly, neither are we.

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Out August 28, 2026 on Epic Records.