Seven years is a long time to wait. But if "Comfort" is any indication, Kelsey Lu has been using every single one of them wisely.

The stunning new single is the latest preview from Lu's incoming second album So Help Me God, arriving June 12 via Dirty Hit — and it joins a growing slate of pre-release singles including "Running To Pain" and "Better Than That," the latter featuring Sampha. Each one has arrived like a dispatch from a completely singular artistic universe, and "Comfort" is perhaps the most arresting of them all.

So Help Me God is co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff, and Yves Rothman, mixed by Oli Jacobs, and features contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington, and Kim Gordon — a constellation of collaborators that reflects the album's extraordinary ambition. Across the record, Lu blends distorted guitars, choral swells, and dark electronic pulses into a sonic landscape that moves between devotional intensity and cinematic scale.

In Lu's own words, the album was "built slowly and intentionally across seven years of transformation" — holding devotion and desire, collapse and becoming, all at once — trying to make sense of what it means to break, to believe, to long for something without seeing it clearly, and to be reborn again and again and again.

The project is also framed as part of a wider cinematic vision — the lead single "Running To Pain" arrived with a video directed by BAFTA-winning filmmaker Savanah Leaf, shot on the volcanic island of Lanzarote in Spain and starring French actress Garance Marillier, known for Raw and Titane. Lu recently completed an eight-night residency at the Blue Note in both Los Angeles and New York, showcasing the new material live for the first time.

So Help Me God follows Lu's groundbreaking 2019 debut Blood and marks the return of one of contemporary music's most singular, uncompromising voices. "Comfort" is not background music. It's the kind of song that finds you when you need it most.

So Help Me God is out June 12 via Dirty Hit. Pre-order and pre-save now at kelsey-lu.ffm.to/sohelpmegod