·November 16, 2025·3 min read

A Glimpse at Meredith Adelaide’s Upcoming Solo Album, “To Believe I’m the Sun”

About the Artist

Singer-songwriter Meredith Adelaide began forming her artistic identity in 2012. After the loss of her father, a moment that triggered her to refine her voice. Firstly, she committed to a process built on direct self-examination, and then she developed a catalog defined by clarity and intentionality. Then expanded her work across performance and multidisciplinary projects, presenting pieces that aim to shift internal language rather than function as traditional entertainment. Meanwhile, her live shows earned attention for their unembellished delivery and room-filling presence. Drawing influences by Joni Mitchell, Adrienne Lenker, and Ani DiFranco, she carves out her own space in contemporary indie folk.

Adelaide moves that trajectory forward with To Believe I’m the Sun, her debut solo album arriving on November 21, 2025. The album examines themes of growth, self-discovery, and personal process, drawing structural parallels to her previous work as a pastry chef—specifically the slow, layered technique behind croissant-making. However, the album maintains a stripped-back, intimate sound consistent with her earlier material. Additionally, she has already introduced three singles: What Do I Know, One Foot Out, and Guard Dog, prior to the album’s official launch.

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The Album

The album unfolds across eight tracks, each one revealing a different shade of Adelaide’s emotional landscape. It opens with her 2024 single Big Songs. The warm acoustics rise gently under the confession: “I wanna sing big songs on a big stage for a big crowd but what I got are these two cold feet and these great big dreams that I don’t talk about.” It’s the sound of someone craving magnitude while wrestling with the small, trembling doubts that live under the skin. Then One Foot Out enters with an eerie glow. It paints an image of standing in a hallway of flickering lights, drawn toward the exit even while wanting to stay, every step echoing with self-created shadows. The mood lingers like a breath held too long, shaping the song’s tension.

Then, Pushing Out immediately shifts the energy. The pace quickens, southern-leaning guitars spark heat. The line, “pushing out the stale now and coming back to the best of it,” becomes a cry for renewal. After the burst of clarity, Guard Dog narrows the spotlight and strips everything back. It maps out the strange, tangled, and not-always-comprehensible ways people protect themselves—yet impossible to separate from real emotional survival.

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From there, Lights On dims the room again. It hums with late-night melancholy as “I fall asleep with the lights on…wake up to learn you never came back in,” aches with the weight of someone left. Next, her 2024 single I Want It Back deepens the ache, swimming in nostalgia and dusk. The line, “The light is gone, guess I just want it back,” reaches out for what slipped through time.

Then comes Lost, drifting in like a grey morning. The vocals float just above the ground, airy and unhurried. They suspend the track in a dream-state. Then the post-chorus break adds a jolt of color. An echo of being lost yet strangely at ease inside the uncertainty. Lastly, What Do I Know closes the album with stripped-back honesty, tracing the contradictions of moving through life while uncertainty claws at the edges. It feels cathartic, like admitting you don’t know everything, but you’re still choosing to move forward anyway.

What emerges across these early listens to Meredith Adelaide’s To Believe I’m the Sun is an album shaped by self-discovery, resilience, and the quiet bravery of examining one’s inner landscape. The previewed tracks offer only a glimpse of its full emotional range, making the upcoming November 21, 2025 release feel even more anticipated. It’s a project too thoughtful—and too vividly crafted—to miss.