Petals for Armor is the hugely anticipated debut solo album from Grammy Award-winning Paramore singer Hayley Williams. The record was produced by Taylor York, Williams' lead collaborator in Paramore, and is heralded by the smoldering lead single "Simmer."
"I'm so ready and so incredibly humbled to get to share this project," says Williams. "Making it was a scary, empowering experience. Some of my proudest moments as a lyricist happened while writing ‘Petals for Armor.' And I was able to get my hands a little dirtier than usual when it came to instrumentation. I'm in a band with my favorite musicians so I never really feel the need to step into a role as a player when it comes to Paramore records. This project, however, benefited from a little bit of musical naïveté and rawness and so I experimented quite a bit more. I made this with some of the closest people to me. Their respective talents really shine bright throughout the record. I like to think we all make each other better and the result is something that sounds and feels exactly as I'd hoped it would."
"Now that it's time to put it all out there, I can finally exhale," she adds. "I'm excited to let people in to experience a different side of myself that I've only very recently become familiar with."
- Simmer
- Leave It Alone
- Cinnamon
- Creepin'
- Sudden Desire
- Dead Horse
- My Friend
- Over Yet
- Roses/Lotus/Violet/Iris
- Why We Ever
- Pure Love
- Taken
- Sugar On The Rim
- Watch Me While I Bloom
- Crystal Clear