Kelsea Ballerini is set to release her upcoming fifth studio album, Patternson October 25. The four-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter will preview the album with a new song, “Sorry, Mom,” which drops Friday (August 9) at midnight.
“Let's start unpacking…” Ballerini wrote on the album cover on Instagram. This image depicts her sitting on top of a pile of luggage piled together on a beach.
The upcoming album follows her 2023 Grammy-nominated EP Rolling Up the Welcome Mat, which, alongside a short film, unfolded the end of her marriage to Australian country musician Morgan Evans. While her previous album focused on relationships, her new album seems poised to focus on inner growth and progress.
Ballerina noted at an Instagram reel, “What is a pattern? It's like a repeating sequence of the first thing you touch, because it's closer. It is the first thought you think or the first emotion you feel or the first answer you say, the first choice you make. It's like second nature to you, because it's what you've done over and over and over, and maybe its family or lineage, it's been handed down — it's in our blood, or maybe it's learned and developed by adapting to life… and maybe some of our patterns to blame only our damned. I think we have the ability to look at our patterns and find the ones that serve us, and then we look at the ones we don't want to carry with us and don't want to pass on to our future selves, and you change them. I think we make patterns so they don't make us.”
Earlier this year, Ballerini previewed the work with the release of his Noah Kahan collaboration Cowboy Cry Too, a look at emotional pain and masculinity.
Watch her announcement and Instagram Reel below:
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