Empress Of is back with a new song. Lorely Rodriguez wrote “Dream House” after her family home was destroyed in the 2025 California wildfires. Listen to it below.
In a press statement, Rodriguez described flying to Norway after her house burned down. “It felt jarring and lonely,” she shared, “not exactly the comfort I was hoping for, but one afternoon I made a little voice memo while playing a piano mumbling the phrase….I wanna build a dream for you. That’s when this whole thing kind of started. Like a little spark. Someone said a phoenix isn’t born it’s remembered and in making this I remembered why I make music.”
Rodriguez’s latest album, For Your Consideration, came out in 2024. Last year, she shared the one-off single “Blasting Through the Speakers.”
Read about Empress Of’s “Lorelei” at No. 40 in The 100 Best Songs of 2024.