Taali announces new album with a first single 'It Comes For You'

For the first time, Talia Billig was trying not to write about herself as she worked on her new album taali, but some emotional truths are too big to contain. Almost by accident, it became more personal than anything she’d ever recorded before. On the other side of three semi-autobiographical, emotionally candid projects, the Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, and producer who records as Taali decided to reorient herself creatively. A seasoned pop songsmith who has collaborated with artists like Aloe Blacc, Moby, and José James, she began to treat her writing sessions more like days at the office. “I started demoing out songs the way I do for other artists when they call me,” she explained. “As if I were the songwriter for Taali.”

While writing and recording in New York and Amsterdam in 2020 and 2021, Taali drifted toward a more open-ended style of songform and performance, channeling the intimate and rough-hewn aesthetic of musical heroes like Fiona Apple and Sufjan Stevens. Eventually, abstracting her life experiences in her writing helped her burrow into several crucial themes and get closer to herself. “It quickly became a story because there were quite a few things I needed to exorcize or process on this album,” she remembers. The result was almost 300 pieces of music, which she condensed into an unadorned, soul-stirring 13-song statement about grief, wanderlust, self-discovery, and empowerment.

Bold, mature, and empathetic, taali is a fully realized study of the toll that modern living can take on our bodies and hearts. Here, the soaring melodies and pop-rock apexes that characterize Taali’s music feel like triumphs over the noise.