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Brandi Carlile<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s powerful new song, \u201cChurch & State,\u201d is out today \u2014 listen\/share HERE<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n Carlile shares, \u201cWritten and sung on November 5, 2024, after 11pm. The only things in life that are certain are death and taxes. I wouldn\u2019t dare dodge either one of those things. One thing I know for sure is that we will all be dependent physically and esoterically on the young people that we dump our insanity onto. We crawl twice in our lives. With any luck in our infancy, we\u2019re lifted into loving arms. Who will lift us up when we\u2019ve grown old and burned the whole world down? Not the ones left to sort through the ashes. Let the violent hands be lifted by their religion.\u201d<\/p>\n The third song unveiled from her highly anticipated new album, Returning To Myself<\/em>, \u201cChurch & State\u201d was written by Carlile, Andrew Watt, and Carlile\u2019s longtime bandmates Phil and Tim Hanseroth.<\/p>\n Her eighth studio album and first solo project in four years, Returning To Myself<\/em> finds the 11x GRAMMY Award-winning songwriter looking inward, reflecting backward, and ultimately, returning home after spending the last few years pouring herself into collaborations with musical icons and legends. Out next Friday, October 24, on Interscope Records\/Lost Highway (pre-order<\/em>), the album was produced by Carlile, Watt, Aaron Dessner, and Justin Vernon, and features ten songs including the title track and \u201cA War with Time,\u201d which debuted last week alongside an acoustic performance video filmed on Carlile\u2019s fishing boat at Whidbey Island, WA \u2014 watch HERE<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n In addition to Carlile, Watt, Dessner, Vernon, and the Hanseroths, the album features SistaStrings (Monique and Chauntee Ross), Josh Klinghoffer, Chad Smith, Matt Chamberlain, Dave Mackay, Rob Moose, Blake Mills, Mark Isham, and Stewart Cole.<\/p>\n Carlile is an Oscar-nominated and 11x GRAMMY Award-winning singer, songwriter, performer, and producer; 2x EMMY Award-winning composer, lyricist, and writer; #1 New York Times<\/em> Bestselling author; and activist, known as one of music\u2019s most respected voices. Throughout her acclaimed career, she has released eight studio albums including her most recent, Who Believes in Angels?<\/em> \u2014 the universally acclaimed collaboration with her childhood hero, Elton John \u2014 which debuted at No. 1 in the U.K. and top 10 in the U.S.<\/p>\n Additionally, Carlile continues her work as a renowned producer, with recent GRAMMY-winning projects from Joni Mitchell and Brandy Clark. She also produced and recorded a rendition of Indigo Girls\u2019 \u201cCloser To Fine\u201d with her wife, Catherine, for Barbie The Album<\/em>, as well as a version of \u201cHome\u201d featured in the final season of Ted Lasso<\/em>. She received her first Oscar nomination in the Original Song category in January 2025 for \u201cNever Too Late,\u201d a track written alongside Elton John, Bernie Taupin, and Andrew Watt for the Disney+ documentary of the same name about Elton\u2019s life and career.<\/p>\n Beloved by her peers, Carlile has collaborated with artists such as The Highwomen, Soundgarden, Sam Smith, Alicia Keys, Hozier, Noah Kahan, Jacob Collier, P!nk, and Dolly Parton. She was named OUT Magazine\u2019s<\/em> 2023 \u201cIcon of the Year,\u201d awarded Billboard\u2019s Women In Music \u201cTrailblazer Award,\u201d CMT\u2019s Next Women of Country \u201cImpact Award,\u201d and NMPA\u2019s 2023 Songwriter Icon Award, and has received multiple honors from the Americana Music Association.<\/p>\n On top of being a musician and writer, Carlile is the founder of the Looking Out Foundation, which has raised over $8 million for grassroots causes to date. She lives in rural Washington State with her wife and two daughters, Evangeline and Elijah.<\/p>\n Returning To Myself Tracklist:<\/p>\n Returning To Myself<\/p>\n Human<\/p>\n A Woman Oversees<\/p>\n A War With Time<\/p>\n Anniversary<\/p>\n Church & State<\/p>\n Joni<\/p>\n You Without Me<\/p>\n No One Knows Us<\/p>\n A Long Goodbye<\/p>\n