Jessie Murph Preps Sophomore Album ‘Sex Hysteria’ For July Release

Jessie Murph is inviting you to enter a bold new world on her upcoming sophomore album, Sex Hysteria. The 20-year-old singer announced on Tuesday (June 3) that her follow-up to last year’s debut LP, That Ain’t No Man That’s the Devil, is due out on July 18.

And from the sounds of things, it’s going to be a bumpy ride. According to a release, Sex Hysteria is “a bold departure” from her first collection that “dives headfirst into uncharted territory — opening up about themes of sexuality, generational trauma and self-discovery with a vulnerability and honesty that marks a new chapter in her artistic evolution.”

Following the trap country pre-release single “Blue Strips” and the seductive ballad “Gucci Mane,” the 15-track LP will get another preview on Friday (June 6) with the release of the next single, “Touch Me Like a Gangster,” which Murph debuted at the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Show in Miami over the weekend. The album cover is a nod to 1960s femme fatales, with Murph sporting a teased-up beehive hairdo, with a 24-second promo video continuing the throwback look and attitude.

“Hey baby. Now I know we ain’t been talkin’ for too long, but there are some things I feel like you just don’t know about me,” she says in the clip, while blowing out a plume of cigarette smoke and staring right down the lens as she asks, “you wanna know a secret?”

At press time the full track list for the album had not yet been released, but the announcement promised that fans are in for the “most thematically cohesive work to date” from the singer, one that peels back “the layers of her story like never before as she transforms personal pain into cathartic, powerful music.” The new songs are said to find Murph reckoning with her past, interrogating inherited trauma and exploring “the emotional complexities of growing up in environments where feelings are buried deep. From confronting family wounds to reclaiming her body and desires, she pushes back against the shame and stigma that often silence women who dare to be loud, sexual, or emotionally honest. Sex Hysteria is both a provocation and a reclamation.”

Murph is gearing up to launch her Worldwide Hysteria Tour on July 27 at the Arizona Federal Theatre in Phoenix, AZ, criss-crossing North America all summer before jumping to Europe in October and Australia/New Zealand in November.

Watch the Sex Hysteria album trailer below.