Diane Coll – Tell Jupiter, Hi: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
Atlanta-based singer-songwriter Diane Coll is known for her ability to create work that is “therapy through music” (Making A Scene!), and her next album, Strangely in Tune (Jan. 6), is no exception. She is releasing Tell Jupiter, Hi today.
Here is the blurb with more:
Open, ethereal soundscapes draw the listener into a space that combines grief with gratitude and appreciation for the pain life can bring. One lone voice honors pain with a toast: “Wouldn’t have it otherwise, when grace is the prize.”
“I love the contrast between the acoustic guitar and ambient sounds,” Coll says. “It brings me into two different places, simultaneously on earth looking up and from space, looking down.”
Strangely in Tune is Coll’s fifth solo release, a collection of songs celebrating the ambiguous, liminal moments between the bookends of life and death. Coll produced the album with musician, engineer, and friend Jonny Daly. Both Coll and Daly take on the majority of the instrumentation, along with select guest musicians.
“Nebulous times can break us open and yet, they also contain the alchemy to put us back together,” she says. “Like Kintsugi, broken pottery is mended with gold-flecked glue, then re-fired into a piece of art more beautiful and valuable than its original form. What a metaphor for human resilience.”
Carolina Wren, an early single release, uses a whimsical blend of guitars, vocals, and mellotron to express the sweetness of nature and celebrate how it’s always ready to offer comfort in moments of sadness.
According to Coll, “Being my fifth album, I felt the need to artistically shake things up sonically. Since five is the number of change and adventure, it only was fitting to explore new musical terrain and I knew Jonny Daly, who is a brilliant and intuitive musician, was the perfect collaborative partner for these songs.”
Coll released Up From the Mud in early 2025. It consists of 14 deeply personal songs, “folk, pop and even rock, ambitious and artful all, and well worth one’s time.” The collection is “an album that captures Coll’s magic in connecting deeply” with “perfectly articulate messages of reassurance, vindication, and, above all, rebirth.”
Coll’s other releases include Happy Fish and Other Delights, Into the Fire, and Old Ghosts, the latter of which was hailed as “[a] soul cleansing, brutally honest and impactful album” (Making A Scene!), that showcased her ability to craft “a musical sanctuary of introspection and healing, inviting us into a space where vulnerability blossoms into resilience” (MusicNGear), while Americana Highways noted a “resonant voice held up by stylistically solid arrangements” with “a richness to each tune.” Lonesome Highway offered that the album “sensitively confronts anguish and fulfilment head-on.” Each release made notable showings on FAI and NACC folk charts, including 25th Top Artist for January 2024 and 2025.
Originally from Chicago and raised on a steady, eclectic diet of ’70’s AM/FM radio, Coll found her way to Georgia in the early ’90s, propelled by a desire to soak up the thriving music scenes in Athens and Atlanta. Coll currently lives in the Atlanta area, where she works as a mental health therapist.
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