Be Sweet To Me, the debut album by Violet Grohl, releases May 29, 2026.
The first years spent entering adulthood come with a lot of big life decisions, and for VioletGrohl, that was seeking producers and collaborators for her debut album, Be Sweet To Me.“Going into the studio and recording felt like the path that I was supposed to be on,” the 19-year-old says.
Grohl immediately clicked with producer Justin Raisen (Kim Gordon, Yves Tumor,Angel Olsen). “My first impression was that she’s beyond her years. She has a golden voice,and she’s unapologetically herself,” says Raisen. Be Sweet To Me was recorded from late 2024 into early 2025 at Raisen’s Los Angeles homestudio alongside musicians assembled in the spirit of the Wrecking Crew session players in the’60s and ’70s.
The first song Violet wrote with her collaborators, a fuzzy ripper called “Thum,”was influenced by the old-school packaging of anti-nail-biting polish that Grohl brought into thestudio. “Self help me/Self help myself/Chew my bitter fingers,” she snarls in a honeyed voiceover ecstatic squall.
Like “Thum,” the songs on Be Sweet To Me were conjured from the immediate present and tendto be impressionistic, colored by Grohl’s love of film, particularly the work of David Lynch.Inspired by a vintage t-shirt advertising a phone sex line, “595” is a sly and sexy slasher filled with jolts of noise and a killer chorus: “I'll be your 1-900 G spot, baby/595 I'm on the line/You won't last.” The slippery and melodic “Bug In A Cake” recalls the paranormal activities surrounding Grohl’s recent move into the home of her late paternal grandma, a beloved “guiding force” in her life. “Turn the TV off so it turns back on/Come on, grandma, play me your favorite song,” Grohl roars.
“Everything was written in the studio,” Grohl says. “I would come in with an inspiration playlist,we would hang and listen for a little while, and then start writing.”
TRACKLISTING:
1. THUM
2. 595
3. Bug In The Cake
4. Last Day I Loved You
5. Big Memory
6. Mobile Star
7. Often Others
8. Applefish
9. Cool Buzz
10. Pool of My Dreams
11. Plastic Couch