Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter zzzahara will be releasing her highly-anticipated third album Spiral Your Way Out through Lex Records on January 10, 2025. Spiral Your Way Out finds the Los Angeles-based artist in the aftermath of a relationship spent trying to fit someone else’s mold, being jerked around by indecision and then hitting “emotional rock bottom.”

Written and recorded in a three-month burst that let the rising artist let all their pent-up frustrations loose, the album is partially a work of self-reclamation. But the album also marks both a sonic evolution and an emotional one. Much of zzzahmra’s work has always come wrapped in a warm glow that reflects how they were written — namely at home in their bedroom. They manage to retain that familiar glow while packing an ambitious streak and a gutsy punch.

Spiral Your Way Out sees zzzahara taking a more collaborative approach than ever before, working with a range of producers including Jorge Elbrecht, Sarah Tudzin, Alex Craig, and Halsey touring drummer Franco Reid to help them harness their intimate writing style and blow it up into something much larger.

The album’s latest single “If I Had To Go I Would Leave the Door Closed Half Way” is a sun-dappled track featuring jangling guitars paired with a chugging rhythm section, rousingly anthemic hooks and zzzahara’s achingly yearning vocal. Sonically, the song brings 90s alt rock and 90s shoegeze to mind but while being intimate and lived-in in a way that brings Soccer Mommy and others to mind. ​”​I was spitting. The guitar chords and the bass playing really meshed together, “says zzzahara. “I already had the lyrical content just built up inside of me. I was in love with the melody and we cleared it out real quick. I let it spit fire.”

The accompanying video for “If I Had To Go I Would Leave The Door Closed” is part lyric video and part music video that follows the rising artist rocking out to the song in their apartment and wandering around Los Angeles.