Texas-based duo Crow and Gazelle have announced their forthcoming album, Truth Be Told, out May 15, 2026, with the release of its lead single, “Fall How It Will.” A concept album, Truth Be Told explores “love, power, survival, and the truths buried beneath generations of fear.”

Across the album, the duo tells the story of “a woman and a man navigating a collapsing world, reckoning with inherited harm, confronting patriarchal control, and searching for a more liberated way to live and love.”

“Fall How It Will” is a “meditation on religious trauma and return.” The song “rejects the lie of original sin in favor of something more expansive: original love.”

Lawrence explains:

We live in a world shaped by shame that was never truly ours to carry. When you’re taught to believe you are inherently unworthy, that love only counts if it looks a certain way, it creates fear and separation. But love, real love, draws us back to the truth. It reminds us there was never anything wrong with us to begin with.

Crow and Gazelle is made up of Oklahoma Red Dirt pioneer Mike McClure and multidisciplinary artist Chrislyn Lawrence, with a focus on their creative partnership. McClure, a founding member of The Great Divide and an Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame inductee, is also a Producer whose work has helped shape artists including Cross Canadian Ragweed, Turnpike Troubadours, and Kaitlin Butts.

Lawrence is also a poet, filmmaker, community organizer, and trauma-informed healer. Together, they create work that “confronts difficult questions about belief, belonging, grief, and the myths that govern our lives.”

Their new album represents a “core conviction: that liberation will not come through domination or violence, but through radical love.”