CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD’S NEW LP, HURTS LIKE HELL, OUT MARCH 27, 2026 VIA NEXT DOOR RECORDS (CANADA) / MERGE RECORDS (WORLDWIDE)
WATCH / SHARE “LIVING WITH IT” FEAT. FEIST HERE
BUY / STREAM “LIVING WITH IT” FEAT. FEIST HERE
PRE-SAVE HURTS LIKE HELL HERE
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES BEGIN MARCH 31, PERFORMING IN TORONTO ON APRIL 9 AT LULA LOUNGE
“Charlotte Cornfield is a songwriter who brings a sense of profundity to the simplest of phrases.” - The FADER
“[Charlotte Cornfield] is one of our best living songwriters.” - Paste
“Charlotte Cornfield among Canada’s great storytellers.” - Exclaim!
“Cornfield is a sharp-eyed songwriter, who is particularly adept at both reinforcing and undercutting the emotional core of her narratives with quotidian detail and slacker silliness. - Rolling Stone
“Her songs unfold like flower blossoms, as if you have already heard them dozens of times before.” - Steven Hyden
“Cornfield has the gift of telling poetic stories while sonically expressing them, in true songwriter fashion. Every time listening to her songs uncovers a new layer.” RANGE Magazine
"Cornfield’s strength has always been writing profoundly emotional songs rooted in her own experiences and making them feel like your own." - SPIN
“One of our generation's most moving bards.” Northern Transmissions
“Charlotte Cornfield basks in open spaces” - The Toronto Star
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Today, Charlotte Cornfield releases “Living With It”, the second single/video from her new album, Hurts Like Hell, out March 27, 2026 via Next Door Records (Canada) and Merge Records (World Wide). Much of Hurts Like Hell’s magic happens in the space Cornfield makes for harmony. Following the title track, on which Cornfield was accompanied by Buck Meek, on “Living With It", she's joined by the one and only Feist, who she connected with through a group chat for mothers who are touring musicians.
“I had secretly dreamed of having her sing on the record and mentioned it to [producer] Phil Weinrobe, who she is also friends with,” Cornfield reflects. “When Phil reached out and she said yes, I sent her a couple of songs, hoping she would gravitate towards this one. She did, and she added her Feist magic to it, which is undeniable.” That magic meets Cornfield at her most vulnerable, just as she finds herself diving into the wreck of emotions beneath the surface of a painful memory, troubling its narrative and transfiguring the pain in Cornfield’s voice into something more complex and true, something that must have hurt like hell to have lived through, let alone to retell. Detailing the end of a relationship, Cornfield sings: ‘Maybe I’m just better at living with it than you are // But I’m the one crying in my car // Telling you to go when I want you to stay.’
The accompanying video was made by Ali Vanderkruyk and Sara Melvin, and stars Celia Green, Augusto Bitter, Feist and Cornfield.
WATCH / SHARE “LIVING WITH IT” FEAT. FEIST HERE
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MORE ABOUT HURTS LIKE HELL
Cornfield’s sixth album, Hurts Like Hell is the first she’s recorded since the birth of her daughter in 2023, an inflection point for her as a person and an artist. The album’s recurrent themes of personal growth and renewal, of love’s perseverance through difficulty and shame and awkwardness, are rooted there.
Cornfield’s change in perspective is evident not only in her approach to the lyric—which now gives voice to characters and themes beyond her own headspace—but in how she approached recording. Hurts Like Hell is her most collaborative effort to date. Decamping to Philip Weinrobe’s (Adrianne Lenker, Lonnie Holley, Billie Marten) Sugar Mountain studio in January 2025, Cornfield was joined by a full backing band, including Palehound’s El Kempner (guitar/vocals), Lake Street Dive’s Bridget Kearney (bass/vocals), Adam Brisbin (guitar/pedal steel), and Sean Mullins (drums), with key contributions by Núria Graham (piano), and Daniel Pencer (saxophone). Cornfield and Weinrobe then recruited Feist, Buck Meek, Christian Lee Hutson and Maia Friedman to sing on the album. “Every musician involved was a dream collaborator,” Cornfield says.
WATCH / SHARE “HURTS LIKE HELL”(MUSIC VIDEO) HERE
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Cornfield arrived at Hurts Like Hell bearing both scars from her past and hope for the future. Standing outside of herself and taking stock of what she wanted her music to be in the wake of childbirth, she was brave enough to ask for space, for time, and for help from places and people familiar and unexpected—a group chat, songwriters she was fans of but wasn’t acquainted with, friends whose long-forgotten song leant her the chorus for a new one. Every “yes,” every voice memo, every shared file, every open door leading to this moment in her career. Call that moment what you will—an expansion, a rebirth, a breakthrough—Hurts Like Hell is big enough to meet it.
CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD LIVE
Tue. March 31 - Brooklyn, NY @ Public Records
Thu. April 2 - Chicago, IL @ Schubas
Sat. April 4 - Los Angeles, CA @ Scribble
Thu. April 9 - Toronto, CA @ Lula Lounge
PRE-SAVE HURTS LIKE HELL HERE
HURTS LIKE HELL TRACKLIST
1. Before
2. Hurts Like Hell|
3. Lost Leader
4. Lucky
5. Living With It
6. Number
7. Squiddd
8. Kitchen
9. Long Game
10. Bloody and Alive