Kelsey Lu - So Help Me God

“Songwriting where the massive ambition is matched by quality and intention: Lu returns with a giant synth-pop ballad about masochistically finding life-force in a callous lover” – The Guardian

“A classically trained cellist with a tremendous sense of vision […] a gorgeously graceful piece of synthy art-pop” – Stereogum

“Coming-of-age-movie-ready, with a soaring, synth-buoyed hook and a head pounding drum machine beat […] Kelsey Lu started her new era with a soaring new single, ‘Running To Pain’” – The FADER

Lu’s ten-track album, co-produced with Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman, ‘So Help Me God’ marks their return seven years after debut ‘Blood’. The new record is shaped by transformation where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.

‘So Help Me God’ extends beyond music into a cohesive visual world, anchored by a short film created in collaboration with BAFTA-winning director Savanah Leaf. Starring French actor Garance Marillier and shot by photographer Yuma Al-Arashi, the film forms an inseparable companion to the record – together, they constitute a single, unified narrative work that cements Lu’s place at the intersection of music, fine art and culture.

Fresh from an 8-show residency at the iconic Blue Note – spanning Los Angeles and New York – Lu brought ‘So Help Me God’ to the stage for the very first time. She also unveiled ‘PENUMBRA’, a major new performance work she presented on 7th May at Palazzo Diedo in Venice, commissioned by Olivier Berggruen and Monteverde Productions. An immersive counterpart to the album, ‘PENUMBRA’ dissolves the lines between concert, installation and ritual – drawing audiences into a living environment of sound, movement and presence.

Spanning music, film and performance, ‘So Help Me God’ – out this Friday – marks a bold new chapter for Kelsey Lu, one that feels wider in scope, more visceral in presence and utterly uncompromising in its vision.

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