Ashley Cooke, on her gig as Backstage Country’s Elaina Smith co-host from September 29 to October 3, answered the one burning question every fan is asking: “Ashley, when are we getting a new album?”
Spoiler alert: she didn’t drop an exact date, but she did give us hints and teases to keep us excited for her “new sonic era.”
Since she’s been releasing new music, with “Tin Foil Hat” set to be released on October 3 and “Baby Blues” on November 14, it’s safe to assume she will be announcing a new album soon. Smith asked Cooke when the next album would be out. The “Over When We’re Sober” singer chuckled, “I feel like I've been getting asked that question this last year. Honestly, the last two and a half years since my debut album came out, I've been working night and day to get the next record out. But I wanted to take my time, I really did. I didn't want to create something that sounded just like my first record and then put that out and just call it something different. I wanted it to really enter into a new sonic era, and that's what I've done.”
She revealed, “I have a new producer named Dann Huff. He is literally incredible. He's really opened up my mind to a lot of different sonic things on this next project. So, it's coming out very soon. Yeah, I can't say a whole lot, but there's a lot of music coming out soon. A lot of tricks up my sleeve that I'm very excited to get to share very soon.”
On Going to LA to Write
Cooke also shared that she went to LA to write songs for the new album: “There's a lot of incredible writers out there that I've gotten to work with, like this guy named Boy Matthews, who's amazing, and Cleo, and After Hours. I went out there for two days, and then something came up that I had to leave LA, so it was all very sporadic.”
She added, “But I've just had a lot of fun writing with new people, with new collaborators, with new different artists. I can't say much about all that yet, but exciting, exciting stuff, and it just feels like a lot of. A lot of full circle moments, like people that I've looked up to for a long time, that I have gotten to now collaborate with and create with. And so it's been very fun.”
