Overview
- Malone announced Burning Song on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026, and released the lead single “Heavy With Fruit” to preview the seven-track album.
- The record was captured over two nights at Leipzig’s Thomaskirche where Malone performed on the church’s modern Bach Organ and was joined by Stephen O’Malley (bowed acoustic guitar) and Lucy Railton (cello).
- Engineer Francesco Donadello reportedly used more than twenty microphones placed around the room and near the instruments to create a sense of spatial listening and ensemble interplay.
- Liner notes by Jonathan Williger frame the album around a ‘burning’ metaphor of transformation, a theme Malone uses to shape the compositions’ emotional and structural arc.
- Malone will present Burning Song material on a short European run of church and chapel venues, a move that highlights the record’s emphasis on historic acoustic spaces and organ practice.