Carly Pearce - Hummingbird

Grammy winner Carly Pearce — Hummingbird

Limited edition "Custard" colored vinyl

Carly Pearce's highly anticipated fourth studio album, Hummingbird, marks Pearce's debut as a co-producer and fully represents her new musical chapter — one of forward motion. Following the success of her last studio album, 29: Written In Stone, Pearce leans in to her authentic country sound encompassed by the symbolism of the hummingbird which represents the album's themes of growth, humility, understanding, playfulness, and optimism.

"When I wrote ‘Country Music Made Me Do It,' I was like, ‘This is the title of the album,'" she says of the playful, cheeky song she released last summer. "'Hummingbird' was one of the last songs I wrote for the record and it was like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is what it was meant to be the whole time.'"

The delicate, fiddle-laced title track about resilience closes hummingbird, coming June 14. "It's kind of my little bluegrass moment," she says, adding she got a tattoo of a hummingbird once she completed the project. "It's lyrically way more abstract than what you would usually hear on a contemporary country record. It's kind of an artistic way of saying that you're not going to settle."

After the heaviness of 2021's EP 29 and its full-length companion 29: Written in Stone, Pearce says writing the songs for Hummingbird felt "light and airy and freeing and like a big exhale."

"I was so intimidated of how to follow 29 because I never wrote that thinking it would have any kind of success," she says. "But what it did is it taught me so much about how strong I am. And so, to see this album be finished and for it to speak to so much that has happened to me, I'm really proud of myself, and hummingbird will forever remind me that I can really do anything."