#Hayley Williams Releases New Album FLOWERS for VASES / descansos: Listen

Less than one year after she released her solo debut, Hayley Williams is back with another new album: FLOWERS for VASES / descansos—produced by Daniel James, mixed by Carlos de la Garza, and mastered by Heba Kadry—is out now via Atlantic. Hear it below.

FLOWERS for VASES / descansos includes a new version of “Find Me Here,” which Williams recently shared on her Petals for Armor: Self-Serenades EP. In a statement, the Paramore leader said, “This isn’t really a follow-up to Petals for Armor. If anything, it’s a prequel, or some sort of detour between parts 1 and 2 of Petals. The meaning of the album as a whole is maybe entirely different from diving into each song in particular.” She continued:

For me, there’s no better way to tackle these individual subjects other than holistically. The ways I’ve been given time (forcibly, really) to stew on certain pains long enough to understand that they in fact, need to be released… indefinitely. I may never have been offered such a kindness; an opportunity to tend to the seeds I’d planted, to harvest, and to weed or prune what is no longer alive, in order to make space for the living. I wrote and performed this album in its entirety. That’s a career first for me. I recorded it at my home in Nashville, the home at which I’ve resided since Paramore released After Laughter. 2020 was really hard but I’m alive and so my job is to keep living and help others to do the same.

Read Pitchfork’s feature “Hayley Williams Breaks Down Every Song on Her Deeply Personal Solo Album, Petals for Armor.”