Carly Simon returns with 'Comes In Waves,' her first album of original songs since 2008

Simon shares personal archive 10 years in the making

Press release

On Friday, legendary singer-songwriter Carly Simon released “Comes In Waves,” her first new album of original songs since 2008. Written and recorded primarily at her Martha’s Vineyard home, the 12-track album brings together a body of work that feels both deeply personal and quietly expansive. Her latest studio album arrives a few weeks after Simon disclosed she’s been living with Parkinson’s disease and underwent cancer surgery for basal cell carcinoma (Simon’s letter here). Listen to “Comes In Waves” here. 

The five-time Grammy Award-winner, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee’s new album arrives alongside something no tour could offer. For nine years, she and her team have quietly prepared the private vault of her life's work. Inside: thousands of never-before-seen photographs and films going back to her childhood, hundreds of unreleased recordings, lyric sheets, unfinished songs, artwork and notebooks, plus a place to build community and leave your own message for Carly. It's a fan experience all her own, powered by Starchive, the platform that lets artists open their archives on their own terms.

Visit CarlySimon.com for the album, the story behind its making, and a first look inside the vault. Reserve your place for the opening this fall. 

Six decades after her solo debut, Simon’s voice remains unmistakable: emotionally precise, literate, and unguarded. “Comes In Waves” reflects a lifetime of observation and experience, anchored not in nostalgia, but in clarity. Throughout the album, Simon revisits themes that have long defined her work, including love, memory, family, self-reckoning, and forgiveness, while allowing space for contradiction, ambiguity and emotional evolution. The result is a collection that moves fluidly between reflection, confrontation and acceptance, expanding the album’s scope into something both deeply personal and timelessly philosophical.

The album’s title is drawn from “Slowly,” a song centered on patience, return and emotional renewal. In the lyric, feelings rise and recede like the tide, carrying the quiet reassurance that even the heaviest emotions do not remain forever. Across the record, that idea becomes an emotional throughline: love, grief, anger, memory, creativity and healing all arrive in waves, moving through the songs with their own force and timing.

Created alongside a close circle of family, friends and longtime collaborators who have remained part of Simon’s creative world across decades, the album features contributions from John Forté, whose appearance on the record arrives following his passing earlier this year. Simon’s son, Ben Taylor, appears throughout the project as a singer, musician, producer and songwriter; and her daughter, Sally Taylor, contributes vocals and created the cover artwork for the single.

Legendary producer Paul Samwell-Smith returned to revisit and rework “Share The End,” a song he originally produced for Simon’s landmark 1971 album “Anticipation,” and continued to help oversee the entire project. Acclaimed producer and engineer Frank Filipetti, one of Simon’s most trusted longtime collaborators, was a driving force behind the project, playing a central role in shaping its direction and bringing the music to life.

“Comes In Waves” does not attempt to recreate the past. Instead, it continues the conversation Simon has been having with her audience for decades, one grounded in truth, vulnerability, and a refusal to simplify emotion. It is a reminder of an artist still fully engaged with her craft, still asking questions, and still finding new ways to articulate what it means to live, to love, and to let go.

Carly Simon image by Sally Taylor, provided by MILLER-PR

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More about Carly Simon: Carly Simon is a singer-songwriter, composer, performer and author whose career spans six decades. Emerging in the early 1970s, she helped redefine pop music as an intimate and emotionally intelligent form of storytelling. Her catalog includes landmark songs such as “You’re So Vain,” “Anticipation” and “Let the River Run,” the latter earning her an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Grammy Award, making her the first female artist to win all three awards as a performer and composer. 

For her work, Simon has won five Grammy Awards, received 19 additional nominations, and been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and has received the ASCAP Founders Award. Across music, film and literature, her work continues to shape and influence generations of artists and audiences alike.