Liz Cooper – New Day

Today, Liz Cooper has shared her first single of 2025, the bold and hypnotic “New Day.”

Over angular guitars and a crisp backbeat, Cooper sings about what it feels like to wake up and hope for a better day, regardless of what happened yesterday.

“Hard launch. It’s a New Day. My next chapter. A brand new sound and narrative to represent the most accurate and vulnerable version of me,” Liz Cooper, she shares. “If you don’t know me or if you haven’t figured it out yet, hi. I don’t do repeats and I don’t play by the rules. I explore and push boundaries of genre, relationships and what feels most accurate to my experience and observations even if it’s painful or uncomfortable. I think I’m entering my ‘heart on my sleeve era’ and I’m excited for what’s to come.”

Cooper got her start in Nashville, breaking through with a suite of 60’s indebted Americana that was praised by Rolling Stone, NPR and American Songwriter. By the time she released her 2021 album Hot Sass, she’d relocated to New York and began a sort of sonic reckoning. The edges of her sound began to fray, and a world weary dose of psychedelia shone through in the intricate arrangements. During this time, Cooper began her own queer awakening. Between the sounds of ambulance sirens and police helicopters, she listened to Lou Reed’s album Coney Island Baby on repeat at least a thousand times. “I really connected with his version of queerness. He wrote tons of songs about his relationships with trans women, but he was never totally open about it,” shares Cooper. “He wasn’t ever quite understood in his time, and you can hear his inner conflicts in the music.”

“New Day” marks the start of another shift, a reckoning with herself and her emotions in the wake of heartbreak, and another upheaval, with Cooper departing New York after living through tense pandemic times and escaping a toxic relationship to finally arrive in her new home of Vermont.

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