Lael Neale will release As Killers Do, the debut self-release under her new imprint Consensual Sound, due November 20, 2026. The first single “Slip Away” is out now, along with a homemade stop motion video featuring Neale’s black and white paintings appearing and disappearing line by line. “

From Lael Neale:

“We act as little gods. Assuming great import. All that we build, create, collect and become, to be taken away. We are not gods. The only consolation I have in a world of megalomaniac billionaires and sociopathic leaders. They all will die. We all will die. The Earth will go on.”

As Killers Do was recorded in the kitchen of a bungalow in Echo Park, Los Angeles with a Tascam cassette 8 track machine, the LP is Neale’s fourth collaboration with Guy Blakeslee and stays true to the duo’s commitment to minimalism and the raw immediacy and hand-made intimacy of home recording.

By exploring her struggles on the inner plane against the backdrop of the accelerating chaos and imbalance of our digital society, she alchemizes a transformation – from obsessive overthinking and often debilitating anxiety at the start of the record, to a hopeful, grounded and mystical perspective by its end. The quiet intensity of this record serves to remind us that the antidote to anxiety is creativity.

Lael has still never owned a “smart-phone” and has remained wary of social media. Her DIY ethos of home recorded music and self-directed Handycam videos is now expanding with the launch of her new label Consensual Sound, which takes its name from her Substack. “As Killers Do” will be limited to 500 vinyl copies, each with a handmade cover and mostly available directly from Neale. Her primitive original paintings, which she’s been selling at the merch table in lieu of carrying heavier items, appear on the record cover and in crude stop motion form in the accompanying music videos.

Neale writes: “What’s real is becoming much harder to discern day to day. And for that reason, I hunger for it more strongly. I used to long for more followers, higher streaming numbers, more sales, but in the light of recent revelations concerning falsification of numbers, I am much less interested in it. I make music and paintings because it’s what I do. Because I go crazy inside my own mind when I’m not making things. And it’s peak fulfillment when the things I make to help myself work to help someone else.”

Lael Neale 2026 Tour Dates

15 Aug 2026 – La Route Du Rock – St Malo
17 Aug 2026 – Petit Bain – Paris
18 Aug 2026 – Village Underground (w/ Nation of Language) – London
21 Aug 2026 – Outside Devon – Bantham
23 Aug 2026 – Green Man Festival – Brecon Beacons
28 Aug 2026 – Pop-Kultur Festival – Berlin
31 Aug 2026 – Whelan’s (w/ Allah Las) – Dublin
1 Sep 2026 – Ulster Sports Club (w/ Allah Las) – Belfast
2 Sep 2026 – Clwb Ifor Bach (w/ Allah Las) – Cardiff
4 Sep 2026 – Brighton Psych Fest – Brighton
5 Sep 2026 – Manchester Psych Fest – Manchester
6 Sep 2026 – Edinburgh Psych Fest – Edinburgh
18 Sep 2026 – Sony Hall (w/ Luna) – New York City, NY
19 Sep 2026 – Crossroads (w/ Luna) – Garwood, NJ
20 Sep 2026 – Ottobar (w/ Luna) – Baltimore, MD

Pre-order As Killers Do HERE