Celeste Releases Sophomore Album “Woman Of Faces”
Today CELESTE releases her new album Woman Of Faces via Blue Note / Capitol Records. The highly anticipated second studio album from the BRIT Award winning, Golden Globe and Academy Award-nominated artist is a triumphant chronicle of heartbreak, resilience, and reclaimed control. Woman Of Faces was produced by multi-GRAMMY® award winner Jeff Bhasker and Beach Noise and features nine songs, including the previously released singles “This Is Who I Am,” “On With The Show,” “Woman Of Faces,” and “Time Will Tell.” It is the eagerly awaited successor to Celeste’s debut album, Not Your Muse, which debuted at No. 1 on the UK Official Albums Chart and a Mercury Prize nomination for the British Jamaican artist.
The release comes alongside today’s announcement of the Woman Of Faces 2026 Tour, a UK & EU headline tour which includes a performance at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town on June 25th. The dates are:
June 17 – Berlin, Tempodrom
June 18 – Cologne, Live Music Hall
June 20 – Amsterdam, Paradiso
June 25 – London, O2 Forum Kentish Town
June 30 – Paris, Olympia
July 11 – Ghent, Gardens of De Bijloke
Stemming from the slow unravelling of a romantic relationship and her determination to emerge from the other side triumphant, Woman Of Faces is a body of work born out of pain, but also a steadfast resilience to keep moving forward, even when everything else felt like it was falling apart. From the orchestral highs to the gut-wrenching lows, it’s a chronicle of heartbreak, recovery, and reclaiming control. Unflinching and unfiltered, it’s the sound of an artist learning to trust herself.
The album opens with the expansive, cinematic ballad, “On With The Show,” a powerful reckoning with the battle to push through personal anguish. It acts as both a personal anthem of endurance and a critique of industry expectations, as Celeste addresses the necessity of “Frankenstein-ing yourself together to be able to move forward” under the spotlight.
She challenges the toxic cycle of pain-as-fuel, stating, “I do not believe you should live your life in a cycle of pain feeding your art, then living under the spectacle of it for like a year and a half. That’s not a way to live your life.”
This central tension—between self-preservation and external pressure—runs through the entire record. While initially focusing on a broken relationship, the album evolves into a powerful statement on psychological well-being. Celeste explains, “It’s about grieving the loss of someone you can no longer engage with, because of how it affects your own life and psychological wellbeing.”
The album offers moments of acceptance and hope, notably with “Time Will Tell.” Set against bright strings, the track embraces the idea of fate and surrendering control. “I like the idea of fate, trusting in something that’s not totally within our control,” Celeste notes.
A critical catalyst for the album was the Nashville writing trip for the song “Keep Smiling,” created with longtime collaborator Jamie Hartman and Mikky Ekko. The sessions were ignited by a painful moment: her ex-partner’s cruel dismissal, which ultimately fuelled her creative determination. “I just couldn’t take it,” Celeste recalls. “[It was about] exceeding their expectations of who I could be and what I could do.”
Unflinching and unfiltered, Woman Of Faces is a rigorous and at times brutal excavation of a broken relationship, but ultimately it is a triumphant act of self-actualisation. The album’s title track, “Woman Of Faces,” serves as its ultimate statement. Plucked from an Old Hollywood score with sweeping string arrangements, the track is a modern, multifaceted meditation on female identity. Last year’s declarative opening single, “This Is Who I Am,” proved Celeste never lost herself along the way.