Ella Langley Plants Her Flag With ‘Dandelion’, Announces Sophomore Album Arriving April 10
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Ella Langley has always written like someone with dirt under her fingernails and fire in her chest. On Monday (Jan. 26), the Alabama-born breakout star confirmed what fans have been quietly hoping for: her sophomore album, Dandelion, is officially on the way, arriving April 10 and the first taste of it, the title track, blooms this Friday.
The announcement came not with bombast, but with poetry. Langley took to social media to unveil the project and unpack the meaning behind its name, turning a humble weed into a manifesto.
“Dandelions are masters of survival. Thriving in even the harshest environments,” she wrote. “Often dismissed as a common weed, this unassuming plant carries the deeper symbolism of hope, healing and resilience. This next record to me has so much growth in it. I feel the most myself I’ve ever felt.”
It’s a mission statement as much as it is an album description and it feels perfectly on-brand for an artist who has built her buzz on raw honesty, blue-collar storytelling, and a refusal to sand down her edges.
Langley’s rise has been anything but accidental. Over the last year, she’s steadily evolved from an underground favorite into one of country’s most compelling new voices, pairing bruised-heart ballads with barroom bangers and delivering them with a grit-meets-grace authenticity that feels refreshingly unmanufactured. If her debut introduced her, Dandelion sounds like the record where she plants her flag.
And it isn’t just about personal growth. Langley made it clear this album is meant to be lived with, not just listened to.
“I want you to dance, I want you to sing, I want you to be able to relate to these words where you don’t feel alone in your thoughts,” she shared. “I want you to not even worry about anything and daydream and listen to these songs. I want you to enjoy them with your friends and family.”
Perhaps the most telling line of her entire announcement, though, is the simplest one: “I feel the most myself I’ve ever felt.”
For an artist still early in her career, that kind of clarity is rare and powerful. It suggests Dandelion won’t just be a continuation of what’s worked, but a deeper, braver step into who Ella Langley actually is, both as a songwriter and a storyteller.
She’s been thinking about this record “every single day for the last year and a half,” she said, and now she’s ready to open the gates.
“I’m so excited to finally say welcome to Dandelionland.”
If the title track is any indication, Langley’s next chapter won’t just survive the spotlight, it’s about to thrive in it.
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