Carly Simon announces first album of original songs in 18 years

Carly Simon has announced a new album, her first in 18 years.

The multi-Grammy-winning American artist will release Comes In Waves on August 14, following 2008's This Kind Of Love and 2009's Never Been Gone, which featured acoustic versions of her earlier songs.

The album features nine new songs and two previously written and revisited tracks. Written and recorded at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee's studio, it was created alongside her family and a team of collaborators, including late rapper John Forté and producer Paul Samwell-Smith.

Simon's son Ben appears as a singer, musician, producer and writer, while her daughter Sally provides vocals and designed the artwork for the record's first single, 'Howl'.

"Howl lives in that space between betrayal and forgiveness, where anger has to be voiced before it can be released," she said on the single.

"It's about letting the frustration out so it doesn't sit and simmer. The song begins in anger, but it moves towards forgiveness, and speaks to any situation where trust has been broken."

Simon scored the biggest success of her career in the early 70's with You're So Vain. The single hit No.1 on the U.S. Charts.

In 2023, Simon released the anthology album, These Are the Good Old Days: The Carly Simon and Jac Holzman Story. Last year, she collaborated with Alanis Morissette on a new version of 'Coming Around Again', a song she originally wrote for the 1986 film Heartburn, which became one of her biggest hits.