‘Blueprint’ is taken from Simone White’s forthcoming album ‘Letter To The Last Generation’, available on CD + Digitally on 1st May 2026, via Ghost Palace Records / Cargo.
Something of a lost album, ‘Letter To The Last Generation’ has floated around the internet for some years. Lost in the twilight period of those first few weeks of the pandemic as the world readjusted to a new era, the album received an extremely limited vinyl release, before disappearing into the ether.
With the majority of its tracks written and recorded in the weeks before White made a major move from LA to NYC, ‘Letter to the Last Generation’ feels like a collage from an artist in a restless, transitory state.
Initially invited into the studio by producer Pete Min to record a song they had co-written with Jebin Bruni, almost immediately White felt she’d made a good decision. Greeted to a set-up that included Jebin on synths, Abe Rounds on drums, and Kaveh Rastegar on bass, the collective set off a creative spark in White, and they began to put into motion what would become ‘Letter to the Last Generation’.
“The vibe with the band that day was so inspiring, I felt excited about making another record, something I’d been putting off for years.” says White.
“It’s an album that feels to me like a transformation of heartache, darkness and doubt into hope. The sound that came out of working with Pete and the great musicians he gathered paired with all my preoccupations and weltschmerz seems to give it the feeling of a concept album and the songs that were personal when I wrote them took on a celestial quality, as if existing in some futuristic story.”
Featuring the majestic “Tiny Drop” (featuring Andrew Bird on violin), the track, phenomenally, was premiered at UN World Environment Day and has attracted over 2.5 million Spotify streams. Among its other 12 tracks are the woozy “This Is All You Felt”, to the reverby Radiohead-like “So It Goes”, to the lullaby-like “Rain”; the album also features a cover of Bessie Smith’s blues classic “Backwater Blues”, hallmarked with White’s signature stylistics.
Adorned with string arrangements, synths, piano, and fingerpicked guitar, it’s a record that showcases White’s deft songwriting abilities and diversity of range.
With all of its tracks remastered, rearranged with a new order, with two additional bonus tracks (originally released on the limited vinyl release), plus two acoustic track replacements; ‘Letter To The Last Generation’ will receive an official release on CD and digital on 1st May 2026 via Ghost Palace Records and Cargo. The four panel CD will also feature the original space themed single artwork by Alex Mata.
SOURCE: Official Bio
Credits
- String arrangement and recording by Brent Arnold.
- Vocal recording / track mixing by William Garrett at Electric Lady Studios.
- From the Simone White album Letter To The Last Generation (2026)
- Video by Mark Benjamin- IG @themarkbenjamin
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