#DaughterFromHell is the tag for Gracie Abrams’s third studio album, released on July 17, 2026 — the highest-stakes release of her career after two years of Eras-Tour-adjacent exposure and a Grammy-nominated second record. The 16-track album drew a 4.5-star Rolling Stone review, a mixed 6.2 from Pitchfork, and — thanks to the title — kicked off a summer-2026 discourse about “daughter”-coded pop songwriting.
Quick Facts
- Artist: Gracie Abrams
- Release date: July 17, 2026
- Length: 16 tracks (standard edition); vinyl and iTunes deluxe editions add up to three bonus tracks
- Lead single: “Hit the Wall”
- Notable feature: Marcus Mumford on closing track “What If It’s Right?”
- Label: Interscope
- Tour: The Look at My Life Tour
The Album
Per Billboard’s tracklist reveal, the standard release runs from “Hit the Wall” through the Marcus Mumford duet “What If It’s Right?” with the title track sitting fifth in the running order. A Target-exclusive vinyl adds “Crazy Girl”; an iTunes-exclusive digital deluxe adds “Love Letter” and “Out of Nowhere.”
Critical Reception
Reception split along familiar Gracie Abrams lines — sympathetic to the songwriting, sceptical of the sonic ambition.
- Rolling Stone (4.5 / 5): “Her best album yet,” per senior music writer Angie Martoccio, praising songs that “sparkle with angst, beauty, and all the baggage that comes with adulthood.”
- NME: Positive, framing the album as a “dramatic” step forward.
- Melodic Magazine: Positive, calling Abrams “the daughter from hell” in the affectionate register the album title invites.
- Pitchfork (6.2 / 10): Mixed. Praised the few tracks where she takes risks as her best songs to date, but criticised lyrics as “incredibly intense yet frustratingly vague.”
- Paste: Cooler. Argued Abrams’s sound is “stuck in purgatory,” compared “Hit the Wall” to Phoebe Bridgers’s minimalist guitar-and-piano arrangements, and said the album leans on COVID-era sonic template rather than pushing forward.
The Title Discourse
The title Daughter from Hell became its own July 2026 conversation on Music Twitter and TikTok, sitting alongside the year’s broader “daughter”-coded songwriting wave from artists like #SabrinaCarpenter and Olivia Rodrigo. Fans read the phrase as knowingly self-deprecating — Abrams, daughter of director J.J. Abrams and a prominent industry family, staking a claim to complicated-daughter narrative territory while acknowledging she is exactly the kind of person the phrase is written about.
Related Tags
- #SabrinaCarpenter — the pop peer she is most often bracketed with in “daughter-coded” 2026 discourse.
- #PhoebeBridgers — the sonic reference point Paste used to frame the album’s palette.
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughter_from_Hell
- https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/gracie-abrams-album-review-daughter-from-hell-1235587533/
- https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/gracie-abrams/gracie-abrams-daughter-from-hell-review
- https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/gracie-abrams-daughter-from-hell-review-3957468
- https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/gracie-abrams-daughter-from-hell-tracklist-1236275413/
- https://shop.gracieabrams.com/products/daughter-from-hell-digital-album