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New York-based gothic folk singer-songwriter Kira McSpice shares her new album The House, out today via Danger Collective. Following the releases of Saturnism and The Desert earlier this year, the artist's third full-length release in 2026 is the third installment and climax of her four-part series, 'A Return in 4 Parts,' in which she documents a trance-like desert journey to a house that resembles McSpice’s childhood home in Harlem, GA. The LP dances between gothic folk, alternative rock, ambient, and chamber music, including a makeshift choir of mutual friends symbolizing the community she had in her old stomping grounds and the spiritual entities that call her back to her childhood.
LISTEN: THE HOUSE
To celebrate the release of The House, Kira McSpice also shares her new single, "Let It Pull You", an undulating, meditative track about her return to Harlem, GA. She notes, "This song is about the trip I took back to my childhood home on Easter Sunday of 2024. I woke up before the sun rose and took a plane from NYC, then a car to the very small town of Harlem, GA where I grew up. I hadn’t been back since I left when I was 13 years old." Before she begins her story, the choir returns, beckoning her to the haunted spot with a trance-like call, "Let it pull you / Let it pull you / Let it pull you..."
Coursing through the song's veins is a prominent, vibrant fretless bass, which, after first appearing in the previous track "There Is A House", becomes the sonic core for the rest of the album, especially as McSpice's journey to her house builds out. "It's supposed to be the “walls” of the house," she explains, "which are not as structurally sound as one might hope."
LISTEN: "LET IT PULL YOU"
On Monday, Kira McSpice shared "Wreckage", a dark, chamber folk ballad that resembles a requiem and features her captivating operatic vocals leading a ghostly choir. Lyrically, it finds her at the center of her psychic journey into her childhood, confronting the lingering pain of domestic abuse and unexpected death head-on and alone.
LISTEN: "WRECKAGE"
"Return", last month's release, finds McSpice at the threshold of her family home, both comforted and haunted by the ghosts of her youth. She sings about arriving at my childhood home and reflecting on the memories there, touching walls that, despite years of change, still hold her memories. Her father's words — "You leave you can never come back!" — ring through McSpice's new single, sung in a piercing operatic cry. Perhaps he was correct; once she left, the stones of the house turned cold.
WATCH: "RETURN" (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)
In preparation for her Saturn return, McSpice sought help from breathwork facilitator and hypnotherapist Trina Merz, who guided her through a trance that took her on a spiritual trek, revisiting the past and giving her tools to navigate the next phase of her life. This journey led her to a train she rode to the desert, where, upon arrival, she stumbled upon a recreation of her childhood home, which her family and her left at 13. What came of it was four albums-worth of material, forcing the artist to confront life-altering experiences she had tried to bury but needed to revisit: her parents' fraught relationship, the psychological harm of her father's unmanageable temper, and the death of a friend. She realized she had carried that uneasy, morose energy into adulthood, and had to learn to leave it behind.
The trance gave McSpice a new perspective on the qualities of her younger self that remain important to her, as well as the traumas that she can now find the strength to close the chapter on.
The House is out today via Danger Collective. Connect with Kira McSpice on her website, Instagram, Bandcamp, YouTube, and TikTok for future updates.
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