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Soul singer Danielle Ponder shares Sun and Moon and names her second album

Everything Has Changed will be her label debut, released in partnership with Phoebe Bridgers.

Danielle Ponder

Danielle Ponder singing into a microphone on stage in a pink dress, lit by purple stage lighting, with the audience visible in silhouette in the foreground.
Danielle Ponder performing at The Troubadour in Los Angeles in May 2023. Photo: Soupcoinc, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Danielle Ponder has announced her second album, Everything Has Changed, and released a new single, Sun and Moon, The Line of Best Fit reported on August 5. It is the second song shared from the record, following the earlier single Power.

"I love that this song is upbeat but the lyrics are quite sad," Ponder said of Sun and Moon, describing the sun and moon as a symbol of two lovers who chase each other but never quite meet. She said the song's drums carry that same push and pull, and that only when they stop does its narrator realize how exhausted she is with the chase.

Everything Has Changed will be Ponder's label debut, released in partnership with Phoebe Bridgers, who also has a new album out this month and is set to take it on a tour of planetariums this fall. Ponder's own record was executive produced by Mike Elizondo and Barney Lister.

"The lawyer is going to kill me," Ponder said of her old career, "but the artist is going to save me." The Rochester-born singer left a career as an attorney in 2021 before releasing her debut R&B and soul album, Some Of Us Are Brave, the following year. "I have arrived," she added. "I'm really trying to enjoy this privilege of being a Black woman who gets to sing on earth."

Everything Has Changed is due out October 9 via Dead Oceans, and you can follow it on the release calendar.

The facts

  • The album is called Everything Has Changed
  • It is her second album and label debut
  • The new single is called Sun and Moon
  • Ponder was born in Rochester and left a law career in 2021
  • Her debut album, Some Of Us Are Brave, came out in 2022
  • Everything Has Changed is released October 9 via Dead Oceans
  • The album is released in partnership with Phoebe Bridgers

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