Alessia Cara has released a new album, Love & Hyperbole. Her fourth record, it follows 2021’s In the Mean Time.
Cara began work on the record shortly after releasing In the Mean Time, and began teasing the new music in late 2023. She revealed the album’s title and release date in 2024, on Good Morning America, later calling it “my best work to date—or at least my personal favourite” in an Instagram post.
She shared the album’s lead single, “Dead Man,” back in June 2024, sharing at the time: “The song is about a relationship that has come to an end and is like the last final grasp of trying to hold onto what is left.” In October 2024, she shared another track, “(Isn’t It Obvious),” which features a guitar solo from John Mayer and was also featured in the Season 26 premiere of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. “If ‘Dead Man’ is about emotional distance, then ‘(Isn’t It) Obvious’ is about being physically apart from someone but reminding them how much you love them,” she explained at the time.
To support the record, Cara is also embarking on a global tour later this year. Her biggest international route yet, it will kick off on April 8th at Boston’s Orpheum Theater before traveling around North America, and then heading overseas. The run concludes with a June 19th performance in Warsaw, Poland, at the city’s Summer Stage festival.
Love & Hyperbole’s release marks a decade since Cara broke onto the scene with her debut single “Here,” which sailed into the top five of the Billboard Hot 100. Over the next few years she would release more hits like “Scars to Your Beautiful,” “Stay” with Zedd, and “1-800-273-8255” with Logic and Khalid. In 2018, she became the first Canadian to win Best New Artist at the Grammys.
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