Sara Bareilles has announced the forthcoming release of her new studio album, Good Grief, the Grammy Award-winner’s first LP in seven years.
Arriving on Aug. 28, Good Grief is the singer’s seventh studio album and her first since her 2019 effort, Amidst the Chaos. “This whole collection of songs felt like transmissions rather than a deliberate attempt to make sense of the world,” Bareilles said in a statement. “My deepest hope is that Good Grief provides some kind of comfort or catharsis.”
Along with announcing her new album on Wednesday, Bareilles also unveiled its first single, “Home.” Produced by Bareilles herself, the bulk of Good Grief was recorded in six days at Dreamland Recording Studios in Woodstock, NY. Additional sessions for the album were recorded at co-producer Aaron Dessner’s Long Pond Studios in the Hudson Valley, NY, by Dessner and engineer and mixer Bella Blasko.
Good Grief includes contributions by longtime collaborators drummer Charley Drayton, guitarist Butterfly Boucher, keyboardist Misty Boyce, bassist Solomon Dorsey, multi-instrumentalist Rob Moose and co-producer, recording engineer and mixer Jonathan Low. Brandi Carlile, Andrea Gibson, Ingrid Michaelson, Joe Tippett, and Megan Falley also contributed to Good Grief.
The making of the album was documented in the film Sara Bareilles: Good Grief, which will premiere at the Tribeca Festival on Thursday (June 4). Per a press release, the film is described as offering “an intimate, unfiltered portrait of Bareilles’ return to the recording studio with close friends for the first time in seven years — a cinematic document of her creative process that becomes a profoundly personal, ultimately hopeful meditation on loss, grief and the power of music to heal.”
Bareilles also announced that she’s hitting the road for a North American tour this fall in support of Good Grief. The trek kicks off on Sept. 9 in Boston and will include stops at theaters in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, and other cities. The stateside trek will see Bareilles mixing songs from her new album with favorites from her catalog, giving fans an expansive overview of her decades-long career.
Ticket pre-sales begin on Monday, June 8, with general on-sale beginning on Wednesday, June 10 at 10 A.M. local time. More information is available via her website.
The track list for Good Grief will include Bareilles’ acclaimed 2026 release “Salt Then Sour Then Sweet,” co-written with Carlile and the late poet and activist Andrea Gibson. Short-listed for Best Original Song at the 98th Academy Awards, the song appears in the Peabody Award-winning documentary Come See Me in the Good Light, which Bareilles executive produced and was short-listed for Best Documentary at the 98th Academy Awards.
While fans await Bareilles new album and tour, they can catch a glimpse of the vocalist during her upcoming Rolling Stone Residency debut, which takes place on June 11 at the Cherry Lane Theater in New York City.
