Cassandra Jenkins has announced her third album, My Light, My Destroyer, which will be out July 12 and is her first album for Dead Oceans. The album was produced by Andrew Lappin (L’Rain, Yumi Zouma), and features contributions from Palehound’s El Kempner, Hand Habits’ Meg Duffy, Isaac Eiger (ex Strange Ranger), Katie Von Schleicher, Zoë Brecher (Hushpuppy), Daniel McDowell (Amen Dunes), Josh Kaufman (who produced Jenkins’ fantastic 2021 album, An Overview On Phenomenal Nature), Stephanie Marziano (Hayley Williams, Bartees Strange), and Hailey Benton Gates.
The first single from the album is “Only One,” which dips into ’80s sophistipop territory and Cassandra says is “about a Groundhog Day effect, finding yourself in the same situation over and over again, not knowing how to get out of that loop—and in some sense, an unwillingness to break a cycle because you’re blinded by your circumstances.”
Watch the “Only One” video, directed by Lydia Fine & Tony Blahd, below.
My Light, My Destroyer
1. Devotion
2. Clams Casino
3. Delphinium Blue
4. Shatner’s Theme
5. Aurora, IL
6. Betelgeuse
7. Omakase
8. Music??
9. Petco
10. Attente Téléphonique
11. Tape and Tissue
12. Only One
13. Hayley