V Torres is stepping into her most personal work yet. The Los Angeles songwriter has announced her sophomore album ‘Woman,’ arriving independently September 1, 2026, led by a stirring title track and a cinematic new video. The single is out now on all streaming platforms.
The song came from a heavy place. “When I wrote ‘Woman,’ it felt heavy,” Torres explains. “The line, ‘my work never ends, it just starts over and over again,’ felt so fitting to how I was feeling at the time, and honestly, most of the time.” Playing it live changed her sense of what it was. “Women kept coming up to me afterward saying, ‘You wrote this song for me.’ That’s when I realized it had become something bigger than my own story.” The accompanying video, directed by cinematographer Dylan Pelle, is a desert-soaked visual that mirrors the track’s raw vulnerability and hard-earned liberation.
Co-produced with longtime collaborator Steve Aguilar, “Woman” pulls from western landscapes, Latin textures, and indie-rock catharsis, driven by galloping drums, sprawling guitars, and Torres’ commanding vocal. It builds like a journey toward collective release, keeping the immediacy of her live shows while reaching for something cinematic and immersive.
That honesty runs through the whole record, a seven-song collection Torres calls “a journey and testament to the things that shaped the woman I am today.” She moves between expansive indie-rock, funky beach Americana, stripped-down balladry, and desert-hued psych-rock. “Beginnings” wrestles with endings and rebirth, “Great Escape” reflects on the loneliness and freedom that followed the end of her marriage, and “Winter Solstice,” written after a close friend lost her brother, captures the tenderness of trying to comfort someone through grief. “Slow” explores identity and freedom against a surreal Joshua Tree backdrop, while “That Night” lingers in the charged space between friendship and desire.
‘Woman’ also marks Torres’ first time co-producing a full-length project. “I’ve been in situations before where I felt muted creatively,” she says. “This time, there was safety and freedom. If something didn’t feel fully expressed, we kept working until it did.” It’s a fearless, lived-in record from a songwriter fully in command of her voice.
Born and raised in coastal Southern California, Torres grew up immersed in her parents’ record collection, soaking up everyone from Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, and Hank Williams Jr. to Joni Mitchell, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Earth, Wind & Fire. By high school she was performing originals at open mics, later playing iconic LA venues like The Roxy Theatre and The Viper Room with her first band, Gorgeous Got a Gun.
She celebrates the single with a special event tonight, June 11, at The Studio in Hermosa Beach, featuring a live performance, an exclusive video screening, and a behind-the-scenes Q&A with the creative team.
Woman Tracklisting:
- Beginnings
- Woman
- Winter Solstice
- That Night
- Slow
- Great Escape
- I Know Nothing