Alison Wonderland will release her fourth studio album, Ghost World, on Oct. 3.
The project is the follow-up to the Australian producer’s 2022 LP Loner, which followed 2018’s Awake and 2015’s Run, both of which hit No. 1 on Top Dance Albums.
Wonderland tells Billboard that all of these albums have functioned as time capsules capturing various periods of her life. But with Ghost World, she says the idea was “to create my own world, as I was starting to really doubt where I exist in this life.”
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She’s releasing the album now because “my soul feels it. I always go with my gut — never a strategy — and it really feels right for right now.”
Wonderland has already released the album’s first two singles — “Again? F–k.” and “Get Started” — with its third track, the psychedelic future bass song “iwannaliveinadream” out Friday (Aug. 1).
While Wonderland released an album called Genesis under her Whyte Fang alias in April of 2023, Ghost World is her first project since giving birth to her first child in June 2023. Naturally, her life has changed significantly in the three years between Loner and Ghost World, and she feels the new album reflects these changes in both process and sound.
“I am in a completely different part of my life now,” she says. “I met and married the love of my life and created another life, aka my baby Max. … I really felt free sonically when making Genesis. I realized going back to my roots musically is the only way for this next Alison Wonderland album to feel genuine. I got rid of all the outside voices; I felt like I was letting people dictate my art and my voice.”
To avoid this issue, the artist born Alex Sholler A&R’d the entire album herself, bringing in a close knit group of collaborators (whose names will be announced in the coming months) and “shutting out all the noise.”
The world-building on the album is, she says, a response to “always having felt like I do not know where I fit in, both in the industry or life. I noticed when writing all these songs that a lot of the lyrics pointed to that, hence the name Ghost World. I want to create a universe where everyone can feel like they belong. My influences for this is 100% my own imagination. I am a very visual and imaginative person so this was naturally building in my mind the entire writing process. It just all feels so right — especially in the world right now, a lot of people feel lost.”
To that end, she and her team are currently planning a tour behind the new album that features an entirely new production, with details on dates and cities forthcoming.
See the album’s cover art below:
Alison Wonderland, Ghost World
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