Ingrid Michaelson - It Doesn't Have To Make Sense

Features the new single "Hell No" and "Celebrate"

Indie pop singer Ingrid Michaelson recently lost her mother to terminal cancer. Michaelson coped with the loss within the confines of the recording studio, where she unearthed a broad range of emotions on her new album, appropriately named It Doesn't Have to Make Sense. The 10 tracks run the gamut from piano-driven ballads to ebullient pop tunes.

"There's a song that's the saddest one I've ever written and one that's super happy and celebratory," she says. "That's life: You go through major loss and sadness, but you also hopefully will find your joy."

To say Michaelson is prolific is an understatement: In just a decade, she has released six albums (five of which have charted) and 10 singles (eight charted). But to say she's an emotional multitasker? That's a relatively new accomplishment for her. The love's-labors-lost banger "Hell No," is her first single from the new album and her first in a year. It's also surprisingly playful.

It Doesn't Have to Make Sense is a powerfully honest time capsule of her undoings and rebirths, including the death of her mother and the demise of her marriage. For some it can take some time to navigate the stages of so much grief. But Michaelson did it in record time.

"Allowing myself to not try to make everything make sense was freeing for me," she explains the New York-based singer. "Life doesn't always make sense."

1. Light Me Up

2. Whole Lot of Heart

3. Miss America

4. Another Life

5. I Remember Her

6. Drink You Gone

7. Hell No

8. Still the One

9. Celebrate

10. Old Days

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