Bloodhorse!
Grace Cummings
Released on August 14, 2026 via ATO Records, Bloodhorse! is Australian singer-songwriter Grace Cummings’s fourth studio album, a 12-track work of heightened emotional drama and unstable beauty. Reuniting her with producer Jonathan Wilson, Cummings turns anxieties, childhood shadows, self-doubt, hope, and nightmares into a theatrical song cycle that frequently feels poised between a confession and a surreal stage performance. Its title and artwork suggest movement, instinct, and escape, while the album repeatedly confronts the pressure to become an acceptable version of oneself.
The record expands Cummings’s usual piano-and-guitar-based songwriting with grand piano, brass, strings, woodwinds, timpani, synthesizers, and rock-band force. It opens explosively with “The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Morphine,” a startling reworking of The Sound of Music imagery that combines fluttering flutes, dissonance, and orchestral weight; “FAKE” develops from stately piano and ominous strings into a dark, escalating climax before flowing into the restless title track. Elsewhere, “I’m Not Crazy” offers a comparatively stripped-back acoustic confession, “WITCH! WITCH! WITCH!” intensifies the album’s more unsettling side, and the piano-led “My Island and Me” and “See You in Fifty Years” close the journey with hard-won reflection rather than easy resolution.
Released on August 14, 2026 via ATO Records, Bloodhorse! is Australian singer-songwriter Grace Cummings’s fourth studio album, a 12-track work of heightened emotional drama and unstable beauty. Reuniting her with producer Jonathan Wilson, Cummings turns anxieties, childhood shadows, self-doubt, hope, and nightmares into a theatrical song cycle that frequently feels poised between a confession and a surreal stage performance. Its title and artwork suggest movement, instinct, and escape, while the album repeatedly confronts the pressure to become an acceptable version of oneself.
The record expands Cummings’s usual piano-and-guitar-based songwriting with grand piano, brass, strings, woodwinds, timpani, synthesizers, and rock-band force. It opens explosively with “The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Morphine,” a startling reworking of The Sound of Music imagery that combines fluttering flutes, dissonance, and orchestral weight; “FAKE” develops from stately piano and ominous strings into a dark, escalating climax before flowing into the restless title track. Elsewhere, “I’m Not Crazy” offers a comparatively stripped-back acoustic confession, “WITCH! WITCH! WITCH!” intensifies the album’s more unsettling side, and the piano-led “My Island and Me” and “See You in Fifty Years” close the journey with hard-won reflection rather than easy resolution.
Bloodhorse!
Grace Cummings
Released on August 14, 2026 via ATO Records, Bloodhorse! is Australian singer-songwriter Grace Cummings’s fourth studio album, a 12-track work of heightened emotional drama and unstable beauty. Reuniting her with producer Jonathan Wilson, Cummings turns anxieties, childhood shadows, self-doubt, hope, and nightmares into a theatrical song cycle that frequently feels poised between a confession and a surreal stage performance. Its title and artwork suggest movement, instinct, and escape, while the album repeatedly confronts the pressure to become an acceptable version of oneself.
The record expands Cummings’s usual piano-and-guitar-based songwriting with grand piano, brass, strings, woodwinds, timpani, synthesizers, and rock-band force. It opens explosively with “The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Morphine,” a startling reworking of The Sound of Music imagery that combines fluttering flutes, dissonance, and orchestral weight; “FAKE” develops from stately piano and ominous strings into a dark, escalating climax before flowing into the restless title track. Elsewhere, “I’m Not Crazy” offers a comparatively stripped-back acoustic confession, “WITCH! WITCH! WITCH!” intensifies the album’s more unsettling side, and the piano-led “My Island and Me” and “See You in Fifty Years” close the journey with hard-won reflection rather than easy resolution.
Released on August 14, 2026 via ATO Records, Bloodhorse! is Australian singer-songwriter Grace Cummings’s fourth studio album, a 12-track work of heightened emotional drama and unstable beauty. Reuniting her with producer Jonathan Wilson, Cummings turns anxieties, childhood shadows, self-doubt, hope, and nightmares into a theatrical song cycle that frequently feels poised between a confession and a surreal stage performance. Its title and artwork suggest movement, instinct, and escape, while the album repeatedly confronts the pressure to become an acceptable version of oneself.
The record expands Cummings’s usual piano-and-guitar-based songwriting with grand piano, brass, strings, woodwinds, timpani, synthesizers, and rock-band force. It opens explosively with “The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Morphine,” a startling reworking of The Sound of Music imagery that combines fluttering flutes, dissonance, and orchestral weight; “FAKE” develops from stately piano and ominous strings into a dark, escalating climax before flowing into the restless title track. Elsewhere, “I’m Not Crazy” offers a comparatively stripped-back acoustic confession, “WITCH! WITCH! WITCH!” intensifies the album’s more unsettling side, and the piano-led “My Island and Me” and “See You in Fifty Years” close the journey with hard-won reflection rather than easy resolution.