Kelsea Ballerini Reveals Upcoming Album ‘Patterns’ Is Coming Soon

Kelsea Ballerini is set to release her upcoming fifth studio album, Patterns, on Oct. 25. The four-time Grammy nominated singer-songwriter will preview the album with a new song, “Sorry, Mom,” which arrives Friday (Aug. 9) at midnight.

“let’s start unpacking…,” Ballerini captioned the album’s cover art on Instagram. That image depicts her seated atop a pile of luggage heaped together on a beach shore.

The upcoming album follows her Grammy-nominated 2023 EP Rolling Up the Welcome Mat, which, alongside a short film, unfurled the ending of her marriage to Australian country musician Morgan Evans. While her previous album focused on relationships, her new album seems poised to focus on internal growth and progression.

Ballerini noted in an Instagram Reel, “What’s a pattern? It’s like a reoccurring sequence of the first thing you reach for, ’cause it’s closest. It’s the first thought you think or the first feeling you feel, or first response you say, the first choice you make. It’s like your second nature, ’cause it’s what you’ve done over and over and over again, and maybe its familial, or generational, it’s been handed down — it’s in our blood, or maybe it’s learned and developed from adapting to life … and maybe some of our patterns are just our own damn fault. I think we have the ability to look at our patterns and find the ones that serve us and then we look at the ones that we don’t want to carry with us and we don’t want to hand down to future us, and you change them. I think that we make patterns so they don’t make us.”

Earlier this year, Ballerini previewed the project with the release of the Noah Kahan collaboration “Cowboys Cry Too,” a look at emotional pain and masculinity.

Check out her announcement and the Instagram Reel below: