RØRY has announced her highly anticipated sophomore album Bloodletting, due 4 September via Sadcøre Records, alongside new single ‘Strange’, which is out now.
The album arrives following a UK Top 10 debut, a journey through sobriety, love and family, and what RØRY describes as a reckoning with emotions she had spent a lifetime suppressing. Where her first record leaned into vulnerability and sadness, Bloodletting pushes into harder, more unfamiliar territory, exploring grief, rage, mortality and what she calls the process of reclaiming disconnected parts of herself.
“I realised I was sick from being nice,” she says of the record. “I’d spent so much of my life being the bigger person, forgiving people, understanding people, making excuses for people. I’d become disconnected from huge parts of myself. Bloodletting was about reclaiming them.”
Produced by long-term collaborators Kingdoms with additional production and mixing from Dan Lancaster (Bring Me The Horizon, Muse), the album marks a deliberate sonic evolution. RØRY took vocal lessons and learned to scream for the first time, finding a way to express emotions that clean vocals could never fully contain. The title itself draws from the ancient medical practice of releasing blood to cure illness; here it becomes a metaphor for letting go of everything buried too deep for too long.
Bloodletting collects recent singles ‘Degradation’, ‘Dead Girl Walking’ and ‘Kids These Days’ alongside new material, closing on the pointed interlude ‘[do you want to live?]’. The 13-track record asks a question that runs through every song: do you want to die, or do you want to live?
RØRY plays Download Festival on 13 June ahead of the album’s release.
