Grace Cummings details new album, Bloodhorse!

Bloodhorse! follows Cummings' third album, Ramona, released in 2024. "My God" arrives today as the first taster of the upcoming work, alongside a video directed by Ben Portnoy.

Speaking about the new song, Cummings says: “Lyrically, this song is about hatred, jealousy, rage. The God here is the dark forces that are wrapping around us, that we scroll through, the toxic energy that binds us together in this modern world, and the fear we feed it every day."

Bloodhorse! saw Cummings reunite with producer Jonathan Wilson (Father John Misty, Angel Olsen, Margo Price) in Topanga Canyon, California, to bring themes of life, death, agency, abuse and self-examination through synth and string-based rhythms. “In the past few years I’ve gone through one of the biggest personal changes of my life,” Cummings says. “Bloodhorse! is an attempt to express the things I can't say. A confession, an act of courage. For no one else but me. And it’s me deciding to represent, not necessarily the way life is, but the way it feels.”

Discussing the meaning behind the title, she adds: “A bloodhorse is a horse expected to be a winner. But they can often also be temperamental, fearful, fragile and easily broken. Sometimes I feel like I’m a trapped animal. And…when I go to sleep, sometimes it's like I'm in the gate, twitching. And as soon as I open my eyes, I'm fucking running.”

Bloodhorse! artwork

Bloodhorse! tracklist