Cinder Well has released haunting and “dream-like” new single “Beyond The Pale” that has a confessional nature and the back-drop of a cityscape. It’s accompanied by a video.

Amelia Baker of Cinder Well says this about the song and video:

A hangover, a break-up, a migraine, a confessional, this song features the legendary Greg Cohen (Tom Waits, John Zorn) on bass, alongside my dear friend Phillip Rogers (Hayley Hendrickx) on drums. The music video concept came to me in a dream, and as I relayed it aloud in the morning, I figured it was weird enough to actually try. Thanks to Cheech for making the video come to life, and for running around Los Angeles carrying a box full of water with me.

Cinder Well is the musical project of multi-instrumentalist Amelia Baker, who has previously announced new album A Blooming Body which arrives July 17th, 2026, via Hen House Studios, where the album was recorded with Harlan Steinberger.

By comparison to the more diary-like approach to previous releases (2015’s self-titled EP, 2018’s The Unconscious Echo, 2020’s No Summer, 2023’s Cadence), A Blooming Body is a series of “vignettes of a whole world” rather than a sequential narrative.

Amelia Baker adds about the sound on the new album:

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.

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