Spellling Announces New Album Portrait of My Heart, Shares Video: Watch

Spellling has announced a new album: Portrait of My Heart is out March 28 via Sacred Bones, and it marks Chrystia Cabral’s first truly new full-length since her 2021 LP The Turning Wheel. Cabral has also shared lead single and title track “Portrait of My Heart,” along with a music video directed by Ambar Navarro. Check that out below, along with a string of tour dates kicking off in April.

“When the lyrics for the title track came together, it really started to morph everything in this more energetic direction, instead of this more whimsical landscape that I’ve worked with before,” Cabral said of the lead single.

She continued: “It started to become more driven, higher energy, more focused. And I have a big affection for it because of that. I love that it feels like it withstood transformation, which is something I always want to aspire to with things that I make. I want them to have this sense of timelessness. It could exist like this, or like that, or like this, but this is the one for right now. Navarro’s accompanying video explores the obsession that can consume an artist in the midst of creation.

Cabral enlisted touring bandmates (performing as the Mystery School) Wyatt Overson (guitar), Patrick Shelley (drums), and Giulio Xavier Cetto (bass) to record Portrait of My Heart, as well as mixing engineer Drew Vandenberg, producer Psymun, and SZA collaborator Rob Bisel.

Portrait of My Heart also includes vocal contributions from Toro y Moi’s Chaz Bear, who sings on “Mount Analogue,” and instrumentals from Turnstile guitarist Pat McCrory (“Alibi”) and Zulus Braxton Marcellous (“Drain”).

Revisit Pitchfork’s 2021 interview “How Dracula, Tarot Cards, and Drinking in the Shower Inspired Spellling’s New Album.”