SPILL NEWS: CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD RELEASES NEW SINGLE/VIDEO “LIVING WITH IT” FEATURING FEIST | NEW LP ‘HURTS LIKE HELL’ OUT MARCH 27

CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD RELEASES NEW SINGLE/VIDEO “LIVING WITH IT” FEATURING FEIST | NEW LP HURTS LIKE HELL OUT MARCH 27

NEXT DOOR RECORDS/MERGE RECORDS

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.

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.

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.

Tour Dates

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

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Photo Credit: Colin Medley