Larissa Lambert is stepping beyond the viral glow that first introduced her to millions and into something far more intimate. The Ballarat-born artist has announced that her debut album Yearning, will drop on 18 September. She has also released a new single Blood on the Strings, a darkly cinematic meditation on emotional inheritance, mental health and the exhausting process of trying to unlearn the damage handed down through generations.
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Following last month’s sweeping single I Love You Out Loud, Blood on the Strings reveals another side of Yearning entirely. Where its predecessor moved with open-hearted vulnerability, this new release feels colder and more haunted, built around Larissa’s atmospheric blend of late-90s and early-2000s R&B textures, fantasy-inspired imagery and diaristic songwriting. The result feels less like straightforward pop songwriting and more like wandering through a memory that refuses to fully settle.
“This was the first time I created from a place of genuine happiness and peace,” Larissa says of the album. It’s a striking statement considering how emotionally heavy much of the material remains. Across Yearning, she explores romantic love, self-worth, heartbreak, healing and longing, but without collapsing entirely into despair. Instead, the album appears to sit in the uneasy space between emotional survival and emotional recovery.
The album was developed alongside multi-platinum producer Khaled Rohaim, whose previous work with Rihanna, Ariana Grande and The Kid LAROI helped shape the record’s expansive but cohesive sound. Their creative partnership appears to have given Larissa the confidence to fully lean into her instincts, building a project driven less by algorithmic trend-chasing than emotional atmosphere.
Pre-save Yearning HERE.
