Susanna Hoffs Announces New Album The List, Out September 18th via Baroque Folk

Today, Susanna Hoffs invites you into her most intimate, frank and personal conversations, with the announcement of her new album of all original music. Arriving September 18th on her own record label, Baroque Folk,The List is what happens when an artist and her closest friends gather around the kitchen table and share the stories that define one's life: heartbreak, an empty nest, a new crush, foolish mistakes and the fading memory of what that might have been. It is all part of The List, as Susanna Hoffs turns her deepest, decade-spanning memories into 12 songs that not only reflect what it has meant to be alive and in love, but turn the page to a new chapter in her astounding artistic legacy.

Recognized the world over as the co-founder and frontwoman of the multi-platinum, chart-topping band The Bangles - who soundtracked an era with anthems like "Manic Monday," "Walk Like an Egyptian," "In Your Room" and "Eternal Flame" - Susanna Hoffs is best known to her inner circle for the stories she tells, who likes nothing more than to jam in her living room with a revolving cast of creative partners. Recorded live in her Los Angeles home, and produced with CJ Camerieri (Bon Iver, Paul Simon, yMusic), The Listfeatures collaborations with Rufus Wainwright, Dan Wilson, Edie Brickell, Greg Leisz, Ryan Lerman, Desure, Jesse Harris, Ny Oh, Grant Milliken, Spencer Zahn, Larry Goldings and more who together shared laughter and tears over the course of vulnerable sessions and true confessions.

Out today, and written with Dan Wilson and CJ Camerieri, The List's lead single"Casablanca" is a meditation on unfinished romances suspended in time. Inspired both by a rewatch of the film Casablanca, and the surreal New Orleans encounter Susanna Hoffs had with the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir in 1988 - a walk through the French Quarter, an impromptu parade of Dead Heads forming behind them - it is a song about possibility, and what might have been.

Pre-order The List , and listen to "Casablanca" via Baroque Folk:

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If Susanna Hoffs thinks it, she will say it - no matter how outrageous or scandalous - and across The List, she channels her sense of humor, keen powers of observation and eye for detail into powerful statements of love and longing, loss and resilience, loneliness and limbo, reinvention and self-discovery. Opening with "Casablanca," The List closes with "What Are Wings For" written by Hoffs, Camerieri, and Brickell, for the musical adaptation of Hoffs' bestselling, debut novel, This Bird Has Flown (hailed as "a total knockout" by the New York Times). Sung by the story's protagonist, Jane Start, it is a declaration of personal and artistic freedom, as Jane finds the courage to break free from expectation and claim her own moment in the spotlight, finding her own voice.

Ahead of the album release, Susanna Hoffs and her band - CJ Camerieri, Ryan Lerman, Spencer Zahn, JT Bates - will begin sharing The List's songs and stories on tour throughout the US. Dates include a sold-out, five-night residency at New York City's legendary Cafe Carlyle, festival appearances, shows with Billy Idol and more listed below and HERE .