Announces Sophomore AlbumWoman with Stirring Title Track and Cinematic Video

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Los Angeles songwriter explores love, grief, healing, and identity 

Performing at Hermosa Beach’s The Studio On June 11th

JUNE 11, 2026 (Los Angeles, California) – “When I wrote ‘Woman,’ it felt heavy,” Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter V Torres explains about the deeply personal lead single and title track from her forthcoming sophomore album Woman (releasing independently on September 1, 2026). “The line, ‘my work never ends, it just starts over and over again,’ felt so fitting to how I was feeling at the time — and honestly, most of the time,” she says. “But when I started playing it live, women kept coming up to me afterward saying, ‘You wrote this song for me.’ That’s when I realized it had become something bigger than my own story.” Alongside the single arrives a vivid music video directed by Cinematographer Dylan Pelle (Forest Giants, Operation PolarEye)  — a cinematic, desert-soaked visual that mirrors the song’s raw vulnerability, grit, and hard-earned sense of liberation. 

Torres will celebrate the release of “Woman” with a special event TONIGHT (June 11th) at Hermosa Beach, CA’s The Studio (636 Cypress Ave, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254) featuring a live performance, exclusive music video screening, and behind-the-scenes Q&A with the creative team behind the project. 

 

Written during a transformative period in Torres’ life and co-produced alongside longtime collaborator and friend Steve Aguilar, “Woman” captures the emotional weight and beauty carried through the many roles women inhabit throughout their lives. The track – inspired equally by western landscapes, Latin textures, indie-rock catharsis, and deeply human storytelling – is driven by galloping drums, sprawling guitars, and Torres’ commanding vocal performance as it unfolds like a journey that builds toward catharsis and collective release. The song retains the raw emotional immediacy of her live performances while venturing into something cinematic and immersive.

That emotional honesty extends throughout the album Woman, a seven-song collection that Torres describes as “a journey and testament to the things that shaped the woman I am today.” Across the album, she moves fluidly between expansive indie-rock, funky beach Americana, stripped-down balladry, and desert-hued psych-rock textures, allowing intuition and vulnerability to guide the process. Tracks like “Beginnings” wrestle with cycles of endings and rebirth, while “Great Escape” reflects on the loneliness and liberation that followed the end of her marriage. “Winter Solstice,” written after a close friend lost her brother in a tragic accident, captures the helplessness and tenderness of trying to comfort someone through unimaginable grief. Elsewhere, “Slow” explores questions of morality, identity, and freedom against a surreal desert backdrop inspired by a real-life experience in Joshua Tree, while “That Night” lingers in the charged vulnerability between friendship and romantic desire. The making of Woman also marked a pivotal creative milestone for Torres as her first time co-producing a full-length project. The experience allowed her to fully trust her instincts and take ownership of every sonic and emotional detail. “I’ve been in situations before where I felt muted creatively,” she explains. “This time, there was safety and freedom. If something didn’t feel fully expressed, we kept working until it did.” Throughout the album, Torres embraces contradiction: softness and strength, heartbreak and freedom, grief and joy. “Being a woman now means allowing yourself to just be rather than perform,” she says. “It’s being more powerful, more emotional, more experienced, and more aligned with yourself instead of trying to fit someone else’s expectations.” With Woman, she arrives at her most fully realized work yet: a record that feels lived-in, untethered, and fearless in its emotional transparency.

Tracklisting: 1) Beginnings  2) Woman 3) Winter Solstice  4) That Night  5) Slow  6) Great Escape 7) I Know Nothing

Born and raised in the coastal suburbs of Southern California, V Torres grew up immersed in the deep cuts of her parents’ record collection — absorbing everything from Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, and Hank Williams Jr. to Joni Mitchell, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Earth, Wind & Fire. By high school, she was already performing original songs at local open mics before eventually playing iconic Los Angeles venues including The Roxy Theatre and The Viper Room with her first band, Gorgeous Got a Gun.“Woman” is available on all streaming platforms now. Woman (the album) will be released independently on September 1, 2026.