Courtney Love posted a video on Instagram yesterday with updates about her upcoming album, which will be her first new work since Hole's 2010 LP "Nobody's Daughter". In the clip, Love confirmed that the album is "finished", but revealed surprising context for the long gestation period: a mysterious illness in 2019 that nearly killed her.
"I went to England in 2019, and when I got there, my body just exploded", Love recalled in the video. "I lost all my hair. I weighed around 100 pounds. And they told me I was going to die. I didn't believe them".
According to Love, her refusal to accept the severity of her diagnosis at that time reflected a childhood habit of "interrupting adult patterns", memories she said influenced her new album. She added that collaborators on the project included Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, Will Sargent of Echo and the Bunnymen and Michael Stipe of R.E.M.
"When I made it, I thought this was my last record, so I made the record I always wanted to make", she wrote. Although she did not share an official release date or title, she hinted at plans to tour the album, saying: "I want to tour more than anything, and I want to sing. That's what keeps my soul and body happy".
Though Love's new music has been scarce over the past decade, she has continued to release a variety of artistic projects, from her series of Geese covers to her central role in the documentary "Antiheroine", which premiered at Sundance in January.
