Kelsea Ballerini Announces 'Patterns' Album Release Date

2024 is shaping up to be an incredible year for country music, with Morgan Wallen, Lainey Wilson, Zach Bryan, Jelly Roll, Megan Moroney, and many more already releasing new music. Kelsea Ballerini is joining the fun, announcing that her new LP, Patterns, will be released on Friday, 25 October.

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Ballerini announced the release of her fifth album – the follow-up to 2022’s Subject To Change and her Rolling Up The Welcome Mat EP, released last year – on Instagram yesterday (8 August). She also dropped the album’s first single, Sorry Mom, which she described as a “love song.”

Patterns can be pre-ordered on vinyl – including pink and white collections, purple and orange splatters, purple and pink splatters, and sunburst – CD, and digitally here.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Ballerini, a coach on this year’s season of The Voice, said that fans can expect the unexpected from the new LP.

“I think that people probably expect this really happy-go-lucky, love, mushy, gushy record from me. That’s not the case,” she said. “And I’m really proud of that. It would have been easy to, I think, just collect the really beautiful parts of my life that I’ve dusted off and found the last couple of years. But that’s not the fullness of my experience.”

She continued, “There’s a lot of narrative of learning how to go from fighting with something or with someone to fighting for something or for someone. And there’s a lot of that journey for the whole record.”

The tracklisting for Patterns is mostly still a secret, with Ballerini only releasing Sorry Mom and the already released collaboration with Noah Kahan (Cowboys Cry Too).

Last August, Ballerini released a deluxe edition of her Rolling Up The Welcome Mat EP, writing alongside the EP announcement, “My real hope is for us to continue growing, healing, and evolving together with acceptance and kindness (even when we unleash our inner fire breathing dragon singing the new versions of these songs). Am I right?”