Today Basia Bulat released her highly anticipated seventh album, Basia’s Palace, via Secret City Records.
The album is a radiant collection of beautifully crafted pop songs, filled with warm melodies and heartfelt lyricism.
Bulat’s signature folk-tinged songwriting shines through, balancing lush instrumentation with her distinctive, emotive voice.
Basia’s Palace is a testament to her evolving artistry, delivering both introspective moments and irresistibly catchy hooks.
About the album by Basia:
The property at the heart of Basia’s Palace is at once Bulat’s apartment, her jam-space, and the inside of her head.
It is a place festooned with love and memory, and bad wiring; it’s a paradise that comes alive in the wee hours of the night–a time that’s suited to video games and dusty old records, when you sit in all that richness and take in all the mess we inherit.
Basia’s Palace got its start in 2022.
A new home, a new family, a pause: the singer was finally finding time to hear her own thoughts, to think about old stories, to boot up her Nintendo to play Dragon Warrior 4.
It brought to mind anecdotes Bulat had heard about Leonard Cohen—how he used to do his best writing at three or four a.m., before his kids woke up, when he’d sit and toy with his Casio’s presets. Now it was Bulat sneaking down to play RPGs or to make music on her MacBook, listening for the spirit-world at a time when the veil felt thinnest.
The songs she was creating didn’t feel like anything she had recorded before—MIDI soundscapes that floated and gleamed, like hidden levels above (or below) the action. And as she looked around at the relics and heirlooms of life, she found herself thinking about her memories differently, too, and finding new ways of understanding all that happened in her life across the years.
Basia’s Palace is like a time-travel score, with Bulat akin to Chrono Trigger’s intrepid adventurer, going back into the past to shape the events of the future.
After years of releasing records where live performance came first—culminating in The Garden, which reimagined some of her best-loved songs with help from a string quartet—the singer-songwriter wanted to express herself in a completely different way, composing with MIDI instead of piano or guitar.
She found herself moving through a dreamworld of whispers, synths, early Eurovision tunes–and her great uncle’s gauzy Maryla Rodowicz and Marek Grechuta LPs. Throughout, Bulat pays tribute to the magic of creation and the spellwork of performance.
This is the truest location of Basia’s Palace: not just the Mile End jam-space where she recorded much of this LP; not just her home, her family, or her searching spirit. But the moment itself—the one that happens on-stage, or in the instant of creation—when a song leaves Basia’s heart and leaps onto her lips.
Basia’s Palace gets: 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷/10.
Basia Bulat – Basia’s Palace [Streaming]
