Kevin Bronson on June 9th, 2021

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Starting in February, singer-songwriter Madi Diaz ended a six-year hiatus (from her solo work) by releasing the first in a series of fair-to-partly-stunning singles. OK, we shouldn’t couch that. Each of her four new songs is powerful in its own way. In fact, “Woman In My Heart” is primal.

The new single, released today, comes with the news that Diaz’s album, “History of a Feeling,” will be out Aug. 27 via Anti- Records.

Three years in the works, the album, co-produced by Andrew Sarlo, dissects the disintegration of a relationship that coincided with her former partner transitioning and the personal reckoning Diaz faced. “The bulk of this music came from dealing with a kind of tsunami clash of compassion, both for my former partner while she was discovering a deeper part of her gender identity long hidden, and my own raw heartache over having lost the partner I knew,” she says. “I felt so torn through the middle, because half of me wanted to hold this person through such a major life event, one that is so beautiful and hard, and the other half felt lost — like I had lost myself in someone else’s story.

“This song came out in a sort of waking dream while I was actively learning how to part with someone. It was hard enough not to miss/hurt/hate/fight/fuck/feel/get over them, and, what was even harder, was the love we had felt more and more like a mystery and the pain was the only thing coming in clear.”

Directed by the artist and Jordan Bellamy and filmed in Colorado, the “Woman In My Heart” video was made unscripted. “Stumbling in the dark in old abandoned gold mines, whispering to horses at 9,500 feet and digging relentlessly, all of these physical motions called out to us as a signal in a desperate attempt to unearth the truth,” Diaz says.

||| Watch: The video for “Woman In My Heart”

||| Also: Watch the videos for “Nervous” and “New Person, Old Place”

||| Previously: “Man in Me”