[Cover photo credit to Tim Tronckoe]

Dutch singer/songwriter Charlotte Wessels has unveiled the title of her new album alongside its first single. Titled The Obsession, the album marks Wessels’ Napalm Records debut, and the single and video “The Exorcism” are out now. The new album focuses on a “cohesive exploration of fear and liberation.” 

Charlotte Wessels says about “The Exorcism”:

I’ve been thinking a lot about fears and behaviors I’ve had since I was a child, and how at certain moments in life I thought I’d overcome them for good, but they’d always rear their ugly heads again in time. I keep wondering why. Did I invite them back in? ‘The Exorcism’ is a call for these demons to stay away – but also a message to myself and others facing similar challenges, to hang on – even if they don’t.

Charlotte Wessels says about the new album:

On the one hand, this album tells a very personal story – through its unintended theme of fear, obsessive thoughts and the escapes from them – and at the same time it represents the joy of finding the song’s true forms with everyone involved in the making of this record. That’s why I chose The Obsession as a title. It refers to my personal challenges with OCD that inspired many of the songs – but I’ve also started referring to the band as The Obsession – because there were moments in the studio with them that truly reminded me of why I’m obsessed with making music in the first place.