Nell Smith, the 17-year-old who worked with the Grammy award-winning band The Flaming Lips, died in a car crash in October. Now, her first solo album is set to be released in April. Smith’s parents say the release was exciting but listening to the new album was challenging, so soon after their daughter’s death.
Four months after she died in a car crash, Nell Smith, the B.C. teenager known for her collaboration with the Grammy Award-winning rock band The Flaming Lips, has had her first solo album announced.
The album, Anxious, is scheduled to be released by Brighton, U.K.,-based record label Bella Union April 11.
According to the label, profits from the album sales will go toward a memorial fund established to support young, emerging artists.
Smith’s parents, Jude Smith and Rachel Cline, told CBC Daybreak South host Chris Walker that listening to the new album was challenging, so soon after their daughter’s death.
The test pressings arrived at their …