Has Hayley Williams just dropped a brand new solo album? • News • DIY Magazine

Fresh from offering up a brand new solo track last week, Paramore’s frontwoman Hayley Williams has now shared her newest project via streaming services.

UPDATE (01/08/25): Earlier this week, the star shared a brand new, limited edition product via her Good Dye Young hair range, ‘Ego’, before seventeen brand new tracks - including last week’s song ‘Mirtazapine’ - appeared only on her official website hayleywilliams.net.

In order to listen to the tracks - which are shown via an evocative, retro site design, for anyone out there who doesn’t remember the late 90s or early 00s - you had to have a 16-digit code, which was sent out with orders of the new Good Dye Young product earlier today. Luckily, some internet sleuths tracked codes down in order for more fans to listen.

Now (Friday 1st August), the songs have been released onto streaming services as individual singles, alluding to the fact this is less a traditional album, more of a project. Track titles include the aforementioned ‘Mirtazapine’, along with ‘Glum’ - which was also written on the CD artwork for the former track - and others such as ‘Negative Self Talk’, ‘Disappearing Man’, ‘Whim’, ‘Discovery Channel’ (which, yes, does nod to Bloodhound Gang) and ‘I Won’t Quit On You’.

The full list of tracks from the project is as follows.

Kill Me
True Believer
Blood Bros
Negative Self Talk
Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party
Mirtazapine
Ice in my OJ
Brotherly Hate
Zissou
Dream Girl
Discovery Channel
Love Me Different
Hard
Whim
Glum
Disappearing Man
I Won’t Quit On You

This new project marks the first full solo release from the Nashville native since her 2020 debut full-length ‘Petals For Armor’ and its 2021 follow-up ‘Flowers For Vases / descansos’. What’s more, it also lands just a few days after the 20th anniversary re-release of Paramore’s debut ‘All We Know Is Falling’, which hit streaming services last Friday.

Listen to her new tracks via Spotify’s Hayley Williams playlist below.

As well as the tracks and a player, the original version of the website included a ‘Misc’ folder, which contains a new t-shirt design reading ‘Hayley Williams is my favourite band’ (a callback to this Paramore merch, perhaps?), a voice clip of a toddler saying “I’m sorry that you’re going through something hard”, as well as a photo and a phone-filmed live clip of Phoenix. This folder is still, however, still visible on the new version of her website.

Check out a screenshot of the website below, and find out more about the surprise release over on via the @crystalforarmor fan page.