{"id":55596,"date":"2026-01-13T23:38:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T23:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/13\/charlotte-cornfield-announces-merge-debut-hurts-like-hell\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T23:38:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T23:38:41","slug":"charlotte-cornfield-announces-merge-debut-hurts-like-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/13\/charlotte-cornfield-announces-merge-debut-hurts-like-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte Cornfield Announces Merge Debut Hurts Like Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/charlotte-cornfield\/\">Charlotte Cornfield<\/a> has signed to Merge Records, the Toronto singer-songwriter announced on Tuesday, January 13. <em>Hurts Like Hell<\/em>, her sixth album and first on the label, arrives March 27. Check out the artwork and Scott Jacobson-directed video for the title track\u2014which features vocals by Big Thief\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/buck-meek\/\">Buck Meek<\/a>\u2014below.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Meek, Cornfield recruited Feist, Christian Lee Hutson, and Maia Friedman to sing backup across the follow-up to her 2023 alt-folk project <em><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/charlotte-cornfield-could-have-done-anything\/\">Could Have Done Anything<\/a>. Hurts Like Hell<\/em> was produced by Phillip Weinrobe.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Secretly Group\u2014the group behind Dead Oceans, Jagjaguwar, Saddest Factory, and Secretly Canadian\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/secretly-group-and-merge-records-form-partnership\/\">acquired<\/a> a 50 percent stake in Merge.<\/p>\n<figure data-testid=\"IframeEmbed\" class=\"IframeEmbedWrapper-sc-ldQZQl ejqOZZ iframe-embed\"\/>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-fkZDUs kHRAYC asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-eEeytc eRSvCP asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-zEXFr koTknX responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cIfZLr fHIkTW asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-cGZhnX jwYQWO AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cIfZLr fHIkTW asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Hurts Like Hell<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>01 Before<br \/>02 Hurts Like Hell<br \/>03 Lost Leader<br \/>04 Lucky<br \/>05 Living With It<br \/>06 Number<br \/>07 Squiddd<br \/>08 Kitchen<br \/>09 Long Game<br \/>10 Bloody and Alive<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/charlotte-cornfield-signs-to-merge-announces-hurts-like-hell\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte Cornfield has signed to Merge Records, the Toronto singer-songwriter announced on Tuesday, January 13. Hurts Like Hell, her sixth album and first on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-55596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin","tag-alt","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}