[Cover photo credit to Katie Silvester]

Nashville-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Lydia Luce has announced her new album, Mammoth, due out October 31, 2025. Produced with longtime collaborator Jordan Lehning (Kacey Musgraves, Joy Oladokun, Caitlin Rose), the new record documents Luce’s “journey of self-discovery and finding a sense of peace.”

Along with the announcement, she has shared the album’s opening title track, which was inspired by “her winding road back to physical health after a period of debilitating chronic pain that forced her to step away from music.” Arriving with a music video filmed in the great outdoors, “Mammoth” also sets the tone for the upcoming album, which “incorporates nature recordings into the soundtrack for this current chapter of tranquility.”

About the new song, Luce says:

‘Mammoth’ was written with Jake Finch and Collin Pastore, two incredible producers/songwriters. I loved writing this with them, we kept the guitar parts from the day we wrote it because they are so incredible! The music video was created with Jason Lee Denton and Aliegh Shields. We hiked over 30 miles on the Rocky Mountains with my husband Ryan assisting. It was an incredibly magical time in nature with buds. Grateful that we have this time capsule of a video to remember it.

In 2023, Luce was diagnosed with a herniated cervical disc, bilateral carpal tunnel, tennis elbow and an inflamed bone. She was medically advised to stop playing at the time but music is her life, as an artist and session violinist, so she continued pain forced her to stop. Surgery, plus a newfound understanding of her body, has left her in a much better place.

She says:

I had never asked for so much help. I couldn’t open or carry anything. But now I’m happy to say I’m stable, strong and playing my instruments again.

Mammoth marks Luce’s third full-length release and follows on from 2023’s Florida Girl and 2021’s Dark River.