CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD RELEASES NEW LP, HURTS LIKE HELL

CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD’S NEW LP, HURTS LIKE HELL, OUT TODAY VIA NEXT DOOR RECORDS (CANADA) / MERGE RECORDS (WORLDWIDE)

LISTEN / SHARE “KITCHEN” HERE

BUY / STREAM HURTS LIKE HELL HERE

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES BEGIN MARCH 31, PERFORMING IN TORONTO ON APRIL 9 AT LULA LOUNGE

“Cornfield writes tender, disarmingly honest music informed by the metamorphosis of motherhood. Lauded for her lyricism, the singer-songwriter masterfully uses traditional folk storytelling to crystallize moments in time” - Exclaim!

“Her moving fragmentary realism is often heavy but just as often shot through with plenty of humour, both wry and awkward, and inventive phrasing that borrows as much from hip-hop as country.” - The Globe & Mail

“On the stunning ‘Hurts Like Hell,’ the Toronto singer tackles relationships and motherhood. Cornfield’s best work to date.” - The Toronto Star

"As a songwriter, as a singer, in every way possible, Cornfield levels up on Hurts Like Hell." - UNCUT

“Charlotte Cornfield is a songwriter who brings a sense of profundity to the simplest of phrases.” - The FADER

"Charlotte Cornfield is an expert observer, writing songs from inside a feeling or moment as it unravels. On 'Hurts Like Hell', the songwriter embraces collaboration, family, and a different kind of creative rhythm." - RANGE Magazine

“[Charlotte Cornfield] is one of our best living songwriters.” - Paste

“A hushed, awestruck meditation on a consequential conversation”
- Stereogum on “Living With It

Photo Credit: Colin Medley // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES

Today marks the release of Hurts Like Hell, the highly anticipated new album by Toronto’s Charlotte Cornfield. Her 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, but in how she approached recording, with Hurts Like Hell representing her most collaborative effort to date. Beyond vocal features by Feist, Buck Meek, Christian Lee Hutson, and Maia Friedman, the Philip Weinrobe-produced sessions represented the first time Cornfield recorded with a full backing band, an all-star assemblage featuring Palehound’s El Kempner (guitar/vocals), Lake Street Dive’s Bridget Kearney (bass/vocals), Adam Brisbin (guitar/pedal steel), and Sean Mullins (drums), expanding Cornfield’s sound by further embellishing the intricately detailed universes contained in her songs. 

LISTEN / SHARE “KITCHEN” HERE

Change can certainly be heard on the album track “Kitchen”, which is a “straight up love song,” according to Cornfield. “Meeting my partner Nelson was a major turning point in my life. Everything changed for the better after that. I wanted to try to capture that feeling, and some of the awkwardness and tenderness and real shit that is all part of the big picture of love. 

“When we recorded this Phil had us all switch instruments a few times and then Bridget ended up on piano, and there’s no bass, which gives this song a floaty kind of lift. El and I were playing acoustic guitars really, really quietly, just the high strings. And then Maia Friedman came in and crushed that backing vocal.”

WATCH / SHARE “LIVING WITH IT” FEAT. FEIST HERE

WATCH / SHARE “HURTS LIKE HELL”(MUSIC VIDEO) HERE

Next week, Cornfield will embark on a short tour in celebration of the album’s release. US dates will feature Hurts Like Hell collaborators Kearney and Kempner, as well as Evan Cartwright (Cola) and Nick Levine (Jodi, Great Grandpa). Tickets are on sale now.

TOUR DATES
Mar 31 Brooklyn, NY – Public Records
Apr 02 Chicago, IL – Schubas
Apr 04 Los Angeles, CA – Scribble
Apr 09 Toronto, ON – Lula Lounge [SOLD OUT]
Jul 17 Guelph, ON – Hillside Festival 2026 

BUY / STREAM HURTS LIKE HELL HERE

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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

CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD ONLINE
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CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD SHARES “LOST LEADER” FROM UPCOMING LP

CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD’S NEW LP, HURTS LIKE HELL, OUT MARCH 27, 2026 VIA NEXT DOOR RECORDS (CANADA) / MERGE RECORDS (WORLDWIDE)

BUY / STREAM “LOST LEADER” HERE
LISTEN / SHARE “LOST LEADER” HERE

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES BEGIN MARCH 31, PERFORMING IN TORONTO ON APRIL 9 AT LULA LOUNGE

IN-STORE PERFORMANCE AT TORONTO’S SONIC BOOM ON MARCH 25 AT 6 PM

"As a songwriter, as a singer, in every way possible, Cornfield levels up on Hurts Like Hell." UNCUT

“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!

“A hushed, awestruck meditation on a consequential conversation”
- Stereogum on “Living With It

“One of our generation's most moving bards.” Northern Transmissions

“Charlotte Cornfield basks in open spaces” - The Toronto Star

Photo Credit:  Colin Medley // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES

Charlotte Cornfield releases “Lost Leader,” the third single from her new album, Hurts Like Hell, out March 27 via Outside Music (Canada) and Merge Records (Worldwide). Following “Living With It”, which features “wraithlike vocals in very close harmony from Feist” (The New York Times) on which she “explores the grit beneath the surface of a painful memory,” (KLOF) “Lost Leader” is a character study about a broken-down frontman. Here, Cornfield places her narrator at the scene of an interaction between a musician and a fan not as a passive observer, but a tender documentarian of personal squalor and faded glory. 

Commenting on the track, Cornfield says: “This is a hard song. But I also think it's a little bit funny. Tragicomic maybe? It's about a tormented frontman character whose personal demons and poor behaviour are getting the best of him. The story is told in second person but there are two perspectives represented here: the struggling artist and the disappointed fan. Christian Lee Hutson sings the part of the ‘lost leader,’ and though he only has a few lines he delivers the hell out of them.”

LISTEN / SHARE “LOST LEADER” HERE
BUY / STREAM “LOST LEADER” HERE

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, Hutson and Maia Friedman to sing on the album. “Every musician involved was a dream collaborator,” Cornfield says. 

WATCH / SHARE “LIVING WITH IT” FEAT. FEIST HERE
BUY / STREAM “LIVING WITH IT” FEAT. FEIST HERE

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.

Kearney, Kempner, Evan Cartwright (Cola), and Nick Levine (Jodi, Great Grandpa) will join Cornfield on a Spring US tour with dates in New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles. 

WATCH / SHARE “HURTS LIKE HELL”(MUSIC VIDEO) HERE
BUY / STREAM “HURTS LIKE HELL” HERE

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 | SOLD OUT

MORE PRAISE FOR CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD

“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

PRE-SAVE HURTS LIKE HELL HERE

DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES

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

CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD ONLINE
WEBSITE
BANDCAMP
INSTAGRAM
FACEBOOK

CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD RELEASES NEW SINGLE/VIDEO, “LIVING WITH IT,” FEATURING FEIST

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

Photo Credit:  Colin Medley // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES

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
BUY / STREAM “LIVING WITH IT” FEAT. FEIST HERE

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
BUY / STREAM “HURTS LIKE HELL” HERE

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

DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES

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

CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD ONLINE
WEBSITE
BANDCAMP
INSTAGRAM
FACEBOOK