Kelsey Lu – Portrait Of A Lady On Fire
Today, Kelsey Lu shares “Portrait Of A Lady On Fire,” the second single from their long-awaited new album So Help Me God, out June 12th via Dirty Hit.
Arriving alongside a new visual, the track deepens the world first introduced with “Running To Pain”, intimate, devotional and quietly explosive. Where the first single leaned into tension and release, “Portrait Of A Lady On Fire” burns slower, built on longing, restraint and emotional clarity.
Taken from a ten-track album co-produced with Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman, So Help Me God marks Lu’s return seven years after their debut Blood. It’s a record shaped by transformation where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.
Visually, the project continues to unfold as a wider cinematic work. The video for “Portrait Of A Lady On Fire” builds on Lu’s ongoing collaboration with BAFTA-winning director Savanah Leaf, forming part of a larger visual language surrounding the album, one that moves fluidly between film, performance and music.
Alongside the album release, Lu will bring So Help Me God into the physical space through a series of intimate live moments. This April, they’ll perform a run of shows at Blue Note in New York and Los Angeles, a rare opportunity to experience the new material up close.
Lu will also present a new large-scale performance work titled PENUMBRA on the 7th May at Palazzo Diedo in Venice, commissioned by Olivier Berggruen and Monteverde Productions. Conceived as an immersive extension of the album, the piece blurs the boundaries between concert, installation and ritual, inviting audiences into a shared environment shaped by sound, movement and presence.
Across music, film and performance, So Help Me God signals a new chapter for Lu, one that feels more expansive, more physical, and more uncompromising in its vision.
Live dates
April 16th – Blue Note Jazz Club, New York
April 17th – Blue Note Jazz Club, New York
April 25th – Blue Note, Los Angeles
April 26th – Blue Note, Los Angeles
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