Lilly Hiatt Shares ‘Thoughts’ In Preview Of 1st Album In 4 Years

Singer-songwriter Lilly Hiatt will release her first new album in four years, Forever, on January 31 through New West Records. Hiatt shared the introspective single, “Thoughts.”

Hiatt’s husband Coley Hinson produced Forever. The nine-song collection is Hiatt’s first since 2021’s Lately. In the post-pandemic time following the release of that album, the Los Angeles-born/Tennessee-raised Hiatt felt “overwhelmed and bewildered.” Hiatt responded by trying therapy and antidepressants and writing “dozens and dozens of songs about her feelings.”

Hiatt eventually decided to attempt to quiet the noise and retreated to a rural spot outside Nashville where she recorded Forever with Hinson. The previously written songs were scrapped, with Hiatt and Hinson taking a one-song-at-a-time approach to recording.

Hiatt discussed the process of making Forever, stating:

“I fell in love, got married, adopted a dog, all the things I’d always dreamed of doing. But I felt like an outsider watching myself stumble through it all, just constantly critiquing myself to the point where I became so paralyzed I could hardly leave home.

“There was this intensity where I felt so jacked up all the time. Eventually, I just realized that my life was passing me by, that the love I was living in required presence to accept. So I started doing the little things you have to do to show up for the people in your life: listen, grow, change. I learned to expand my world.”

Premiered by Relix, listen to Lilly Hiatt’s new single, “Thoughts,” below:

Forever Tracklist

1. Hidden Day
2. Shouldn’t Be
3. Ghost Ship
4. Somewhere
5. Evelyn’s House
6. Forever
7. Man
8. Kwik-E-Mart
9. Thoughts