Remi Wolf Releases 'Mud,' Her Most Vulnerable Album Yet

Remi Wolf released her third studio album Mud on Friday, building the 10-track record around what she calls “brutal” emotions.

The Los Angeles singer framed mud as both image and process. “Once you get past the point where you’re disgusted that you’re so dirty and unknown Earth is inside of all your crevices, you can start to have fun in there,” Wolf told Variety. “If you kind of let yourself surrender to the mud, it can be a really fun and beautiful and freeing experience. I felt like making this album, I went through all the phases of being in mud.” She refers to the practice as “mudding and sudsing.”

How does Mud differ from Wolf’s earlier work?

The album pivots from the vibrant pop of Juno (2021) and Big Ideas (2024), both of which built her streaming audience through tracks like “Photo ID” and “Soup.” On Mud, Wolf moves into diaristic territory, grappling with what appears to be a breakup. She belts “I can be your favorite track, I know I can” on “I Won’t Cry,” and confesses on “Bottle”: “The dam broke when we said goodbye / Darling I can’t think about it ’cause it makes me cry.”

Wolf told the outlet the record is her strongest work to date. “People want to cry,” she said. “I feel like we’re all pent up and everything’s so crazy. I want to take people to church a little bit with this album and give them a space to let it all out.”

Who shaped the album?

Wolf recorded with a small circle of friends: producers Jared Solomon, Jack Demeo and Gigi Grombacher, alongside other collaborators. Earlier projects relied on hired creative directors; Mud inverted that hierarchy after Wolf decided she could not bring outsiders into the room. “I was so vulnerable and broken down that I was like, I can’t even fathom going into the studio with people that aren’t automatically going to be chill with me being this way,” she said. The group set up a makeshift studio in a Joshua Tree Airbnb and jammed around a campfire. “I was just like ‘fuck all the bullshit! I’m bringing in my homies, and we’re homieing down so hard.’”

Wolf also served as her own creative director, designing album imagery that included a mud pit she called “a necessity,” a “claustrophobic” video for “Bottle,” and visuals for “I Won’t Cry” that represent “the cleansing.” The release event takes place on Friday at a Los Angeles car wash. “I also just wanted to stand on the car and be in a bikini and wash it,” Wolf said.

How did Hayley Williams enter the project?

Williams, the Paramore lead singer and a longtime Wolf influence, joined her on the lead single “Twiggy” at the Newport Folk Festival in July. The two then performed Williams’s track “Parachute” in Los Angeles on the second night of a Hollywood Bowl run earlier this week. Wolf and Williams first met when Wolf opened for Paramore in 2023. “She’s so fucking awesome,” Wolf said. “I love her and respect her, and she’s just the best singer and such a unique artist and very beautiful person.”

What is the Off Campus cameo?

Beyond music, Wolf filmed a cameo for Amazon Prime’s hockey series Off Campus, performing at a fictitious schoolwide block party. “It was an amazing day on set meeting the cast,” Wolf said. “They all seem like they like each other, and they actually do. It was a fun set to be on. I’d never been on a set like that; it was cool to just watch the village work.”

Wolf is now focused on the road ahead for Mud. “I was crossing my fingers that people would ride with me,” she said, “and I really think they are.”