As she readies the release of her third studio album, Cassandra Jenkins unveils a new single, 'Delphinium Blue,' and an upcoming show at Whelans on 20 November. Tickets are on sale now and available to purchase here.

The new LP My Light, My Destroyer is out on 12 July via her new label Dead Oceans (Phoebe Bridgers, Mitski, Slowdive). The album cracks open the promise of reaching the edge of the new, with a wider sonic palette than ever before - encompassing guitar-driven indie rock, new age, sophistipop and jazz.

At the center of it all is Jenkins' spirit of inquiry towards the quasars that make up her universe. She blends field recordings with poetically-charged lyricism that is at turns allusive, humorous, devastating and confessional - an alchemic gesture that further deepens the technicolour richness of My Light, My Destroyer's 13 tracks.

Adding to the anticipation for the forthcoming record, the born-and-raised New Yorker has released 'Delphinium Blue,' a cavernous new-age pop track and the second single to My Light, My Destroyer. Pedalled by fretless bass, warped synths and bombastic percussion, Jenkins describes the song as her "melancholy bi-coastal bop."

Accompanying the single is an atmospheric video directed, produced and edited by Jenkins herself, which you can watch below.

The sonic polymath suffuses My Light, My Destroyer with an easy confidence, which betrays the simple truth that the road here was not without its detours. Referring to the 2021 breakout An Overview on Phenomenal Nature as her “intended swan song,” she explains that she was prepared to hang it up when it came to touring and releasing her own music.

“I was channeling what I knew in that moment - feeling lost,” Jenkins recalls. “When that record came out, and people started to respond to what I had written, my plans to quit were foiled in the most unexpected, heartening, and generous way. Ready or not, it reinvigorated me.”

As such, she entered this new chapter with a succinct vision for the album. Deftly weaving field recording, found sound, and ancillary audio (like train sounds & flight attendants) she brings attention to stranger-than-fiction moments that bring the listener in.

"The record poses questions about our instinct for companionship and looks for that heartbeat, that connection, everywhere, ultimately finding that it exists in a place somewhere between us and other side of the glass," she says.

You can pre-order and pre-save My Light, My Destroyer here. 

My Light, My Destroyer