Kelsey Lu

Eight years after their show at Le Guess Who?, and seven after the release of debut album Blood—a baroque, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular voice moving between the sacred and the sensual—Kelsey Lu returns with So Help Me God. In the meantime, the cellist, composer and singer-songwriter has moved fluidly between sound, image, healing and performance, expanding the possibilities of contemporary artistry through original scores, artistic collaborations and commissions across fashion and film. On the new album, Lu traces a landscape of transformation, where devotion, desire, grief and transcendence collapse into one another. Sonically, it is meticulous and cinematic: light and shadow moving across drum & bass pulses, distorted guitars, choral swells and dark electronic textures, with echoes of post-punk austerity, devotional minimalism and flashes of arena-scale pop.