Photos: Kira McSpice Releases THE HOUSE, Third Album in Four-Part Series

New York-based gothic folk singer-songwriter Kira McSpice has released her new album The House, out now via Danger Collective. Following the releases of Saturnism and The Desert earlier this year, the album is the artist's third full-length release in 2026 and 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.

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.'

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.

'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 her 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.

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 she 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.

THE HOUSE (LP) Tracklist

01 Release

02 There Is A House

03 Let It Pull You

04 Return

05 Wreckage

06 Harlem GA

07 Gardenia

08 I Can Hear You Crying

09 Sun - Moon

10 Landscape

11 Finding the Ghost

12 Stillness

About Kira McSpice

New York-based singer-songwriter Kira McSpice crafts a haunting and deeply personal strain of dark folk, gothic art-pop, and experimental music. A classically trained cellist, McSpice now performs on guitar and voice, weaving dense, layered loops that evoke a soundscape both ethereal and deeply visceral. Her work balances raw vulnerability with intention, creating sonic narratives rooted in themes of spiritual growth, trauma, mental illness, and the natural world.

In 2026, McSpice will release a four-album series inspired by her Saturn return, titled 'A Return in 4 Parts.' While bracing herself for the astrological shift, which challenges you to shed your past self by realizing what you've outgrown, the musician sought the help of her longtime friend Trina Merz, a breathwork facilitator and hypnotherapist. Under Merz's guidance, McSpice underwent a deep trance, leading her on a journey: she took a train to the desert, and when she arrived, McSpice found a house that reminded her of her childhood home, which she had left in her early teens. As she wandered through its rooms, she crossed paths with a ghostly figure, grazing each other's hands before emerging from the trance. Each of the albums represents a stop in her spiritual trek, with The House, the third part of the tetrad, out on October 23, 2026.

Her earlier work includes her 2024 full-length album, The Compartmentalization of Decay, in which McSpice explores the metaphor of a maple tree's response to being tapped—a lifelong scar encased in protective growth. Using the tree's resilience as a lens, McSpice shapes a narrative that is not about healing, but about reflection and the strength to endure. The album's sound mirrors this concept: lush soundscapes of voice, cello, musical saw, and synths intertwine with haunting operatic vocals, evoking the feeling of being lost in the woods.

She also previously released The Migraine in 4 Parts, a conceptual project that ambitiously explores the four phases of a migraine headache with a mix of ambient, doom metal, and freak folk, each phase reflected in its own distinct sound. These projects highlight McSpice's ability to translate deeply personal and often painful experiences into vivid, transformative soundscapes.

Over the years, McSpice has shared stages with acts like Marissa Nadler, Sloppy Jane, and Nicole Dollanganger, cementing her place in the experimental and gothic music underground. As she continues to evolve, McSpice's work invites listeners into a world both deeply introspective and unforgettably otherworldly.

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