Madi Diaz details sixth album, Fatal Optimist

Reflecting on the new track, Madi Diaz says: “‘Feel Something’ is about the deep yearning and desire to connect. It’s the moment when you’re trying to call in the love that was lost. It’s the first single off the album because it has the sense of urgency and panic that I felt at that first moment I noticed I was alone in my relationship.”

Fatal Optimist follows Madi Diaz's 2021’s breakthrough History of a Feeling and 2024’s two-time Grammy nominated Weird Faith.

“Fatal Optimism is the innate hope for something magical. It’s the weird faith that kicks in while knowing that there is just plain risk that comes with wanting someone or something. It’s when you have no control over the outcome, but still choose to experience every moment that happens, and put your whole heart in it,” Madi Diaz explains.

Solitude called to Diaz during the initial recording sessions for Fatal Optimist. After entering a New Jersey studio with friends to flesh out the songs, she later realised it wasn’t right. The album needed to sound like isolation, to mirror her experience of being completely alone. Diaz started over in Southern California with a new co-producer, Gabe Wax, at his Infinite Family Studio. “This was the first time in my career that I stayed in this heavy place with the songs after leaving the studio rather than trying to escape it,” she says.

Tracklist:

1. Hope Less
2. Ambivalence
3. Feel Something
4. Good Liar
5. Lone Wolf
6. Heavy Metal
7. If Time Does What It’s Supposed To
8. Flirting
9. Why'd You Have To Bring Me Flowers
10. Time Difference
11. Fatal Optimist