Cinder Well, the musical project of multi-instrumentalist Amelia Baker, has announced new album A Blooming Body which arrives July 17th, 2026, via Hen House Studios, where the album was recorded with Harlan Steinberger. The album is preceded by the lead single and video “While the Womb Screams Silently,” out now.

Amelia Baker says about first single:

This song is inspired by the movie “Portrait of A Lady On Fire” from director Céline Sciamma. In the film, a woman is arranged to be wed, and because of her intense resistance to the situation, a painter is commissioned to secretly paint her wedding portrait without her knowing. The song is about listening to your inner knowing, which often screams loudly but is ignored for the sake of conforming – constantly trying to break out of the restraints and projections of patriarchy while stumbling over new ones and internalized ones along the way – ‘pulling at an endless thread of thistle – whose hooks and briars they catch things you thought you couldn’t miss em / while the womb screams silently for you to listen’.

Since 2015, Cinder Well has released a 2015’s self-titled EP, 2018’s The Unconscious Echo, 2020’s No Summer, and 2023’s Cadence. Now, A Blooming Body takes the approach of gathering “scattered vignettes of a whole world” rather than presenting a sequential narrative from beginning to end.

Baker says of the sound on the new collection:

I find that sonically, pulling back into moments of silence and restraint can be eerie in a way that sometimes we think only loudness can achieve.