Cinder Well is the project of LA-based songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Amelia Baker, who's been releasing music since 2015. Her latest album was 2023's Cadence , and today she's announcing its followup A Blooming Body . The darkly poetic lead single "While The Womb Screams Silently" is out now.

"This song is inspired by the movie Portrait of A Lady On Fire from director Céline Sciamma," Baker explains, continuing:

In the film, a woman is arranged to be wed, and because of her intense resistance to the situation, a painter is commissioned to secretly paint her wedding portrait without her knowing.…