About underscores:
Origin stories reenact familiar myths; this one begins with a kid alone in a bedroom, trying to make something no one has heard before. Hailing from San Francisco, Filipino-American artist April Harper Grey started making music as underscores in middle school, sharing a steady stream of SoundCloud one-offs and building a community of like-minded fans. The 2017 skin purifying treatment EP pulled her project out of its solitary origins, and by 2021, her debut album fishmonger (recorded in that same childhood bedroom during the pandemic) launched underscores from recording vocals in a car to opening for 100 gecs on their US tour. Since then, underscores has played main stages at Lollapalooza, Electric Forest, FVDED in the Park, and Corona Capital CDMX. + opened up for Porter Robinson & Danny Brown.
Now signed to Mom+Pop, she’s garnered over 42 million global streams and continued releasing adventurous, genre-defying music, including the concept album Wallsocket and collabs with Oklou, Yaeji and more. The world eagerly awaits the new underscores music knowing it will jolt us out of reverie. That is, after all, underscores’ ethos: “When people listen to underscores, I want their initial reaction to be, ‘This is ridiculous.’ But the more they listen, they should hear the nuance and the heaviness—and I hope they connect with it on some kind of emotional level.”
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
About Kelsey Lu:
It’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual. Seven years after the release of their debut album Blood, a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual, Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God.
Due June 2026 via Dirty Hit, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised work to date. Co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by Oli Jacobs, features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington,Lady Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Across its ten songs, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Lu has long moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry. A composer as much as a songwriter, their work includes original scores for Netflix’s award-winning documentary Daughters and A24’s BAFTA-winning Earth Mama, alongside commissions across fashion and film. Their creative universe spans collaborations with visionaries such as Yves Tumor, Jamie xx, Debbie Harry and Skrillex, alongside artistic partnerships with Nan Goldin, Wu Tsang and Jacolby Satterwhite, and brands including Gucci, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta.
