Atlanta-based singer/songwriter Diane Coll will be releasing new album Strangely in Tune on Jan. 6, 2025. The song “Carolina Wren,” out now, uses a blend of guitars, vocals, and mellotron “to express the sweetness of nature and celebrate how it’s always ready to offer comfort in moments of sadness.” 

Strangely in Tune is Coll’s fifth solo release, a collection of songs “celebrating the ambiguous, liminal moments between the bookends of life and death.”

Coll says about “Carolina Wren”:

Nebulous times can break us open and yet, they also contain the alchemy to put us back together. Like Kintsugi, broken pottery is mended with gold-flecked glue, then re-fired into a piece of art more beautiful and valuable than its original form. What a metaphor for human resilience.

Coll produced the album with musician, engineer, and friend Jonny Daly.  Both Coll and Daly take on the majority of the instrumentation, along with select guest musicians.

According to Coll:

Being my fifth album, I felt the need to artistically shake things up sonically. Since five is the number of change and adventure, it only was fitting to explore new musical terrain and I knew Jonny Daly, who is a brilliant and intuitive musician, was the perfect collaborative partner for these songs.

Most recently, Coll also released the album Up From the Mud in early 2025.