AVERY ANNA’S FAN-INSPIRED SOPHOMORE ALBUM, LET GO LETTERS, ARRIVES FRIDAY (5.16)

This Friday (5.16), Warner Music Nashville singer-songwriter Avery Anna will release her sophomore album, let go letters. Inspired by personal stories from her fans, let go letters is Avery’s latest manifestation of a lifelong devotion to making music that feeds the soul.

Last week, the Arizona native debuted a new track from the project, “what are friends for?,” an introspective ballad about friend breakups. “Girl drama is a real thing, and I love how that song captures the experience of feeling frustrated and betrayed and guilty all at the same time,” Avery says.

Every song on let go letters is inspired by real-life situations that her fans shared with her in a letter series, which has long been a safe place for her listener community to ‘let go’ of experiences that may be troubling them by writing them down and sending them off. Avery read these letters and took the general themes—anything from depression, abuse, addiction, body dysmorphia, and fractured family relationships—and turned them into songs, making her fans’ experiences the center of the project to let them know they’re heard, seen, and not alone.

“I started asking people for their letters because I wanted to give them some kind of emotional outlet, but they ended up shifting my whole perspective on so many things in life,” says Avery. “After a while, it felt almost impossible not to write about the letters, and over time, this album became a way to thank everyone for being so vulnerable and sharing their lives with me.”

Looking back on the emotional whirlwind of creating let go letters, Avery reveals that the album profoundly strengthened her sense of purpose. “There was a period of time where I felt so sad from reading all the letters; some were so tragic that I memorized them,” she says. “But I kept coming back to the fact that it’s my duty as an artist to help people cope with their feelings, which really eased my mind. I think it’s a beautiful thing to connect with a stranger on a level where you can truly see them for who they are, and hold the door open for them to hopefully find some peace. So as heavy as this whole process was, in the end it was just as uplifting.”

Thanks to her boundless empathy—as well as the subtle force and spellbinding power of her vocal work—Avery inhabits the album with a depth of emotion that makes every lyric feel undeniably lived-in. Featuring 14 tracks all penned or co-penned by Avery and produced by David Fanning, let go letters follows the singer-songwriter’s celebrated 2024 debut album, Breakup Over Breakfast. The new project includes her recently released “danny don’t,” which Billboard praised her “sterling, gripping vocal that she wraps around this response to a letter from a fan who was battling internal struggles and contemplating giving up on life.” Country Central called the song “empathetically comforting,” noting that it “makes a strong statement for Anna’s songwriting talent.” “Mr. Predictable,” another previously released track on the highly anticipated project, has quickly become a fan favorite. Holler lauded that the track “doubles down on the powerful, deeply vulnerable and conversational ambiance the country prodigy has always laced into her music…that feels like she’s drawing straight from her journal.”

A member of the Opry NextStage class of 2025, Avery took the stage at the Opry NextStage Live From Texas event last week ahead of the ACM Awards. She is currently climbing the radio charts with Sam Barber on their viral duet, “Indigo.”

With more than 450 million global streams to date, the songstress has quickly become an in-demand touring artist. Earlier this year, Avery brought her electric live show to the main stage at C2C festival across London, Belfast, and Glasgow, and last month, she returned to Stagecoach. Billboard named her Stagecoach set as one of the ‘best moments’ of the day, lauding the “impressive amount of fans singing to her own originals,” and the way she “twirled around on stage, like she was leading her very own Fearless World Tour.” This summer, she’ll join Luke Bryan’s Country Song Came On Tour and Brad Paisley’s Truck Still Works World Tour for select dates.