Rachel Chinouriri Shares ‘Can We Talk About Isaac’ from ‘Little House’ EP

The men Rachel Chinouriri detailed on her debut album, What a Devastating Turn of Events, were, to put it lightly, lousy partners. “I’m not the type to judge but you’re cheap and you’re basic/You bring nothin’ to this table,” she sang on “Dumb Bitch Juice.” “And I’ll end up the one who needs healin’ ’cause I’m dumb enough to sit at your table.” There were a few characters like this across the record, but none quite like Isaac, the subject of her latest single, “Can We Talk About Isaac?”

The first release from the singer-songwriter’s upcoming EP Little House, out April 4, the record finds Chinouriri writing from a place of dizzying love where doubt and trauma once were. “Sabotage the enemy of what once was/Protect me as I take these sacrifices/You deserve somebody who throws their arms/Around you in August blue horizons,” she sings. “I looked at your face, and I knew that I’d found it/I don’t know nobody who knows somebody like you/You’ve got me spun in radio silence/And now I gotta call somebody to tell somebody ’bout you.”

“I write songs from a place of trauma but since releasing my album, I’ve consistently been in therapy and fell in love. Isaac makes me feel so protected and I’ve never felt protected really in my life, especially from men,” Chinouriri shared in a statement. “I just felt so much of a new emotion I decided to let myself write about how much I love him, no matter what happens the fact that Isaac is the first and only guy to make me feel like this is special. It’s a shame that it took that to love myself but Isaac is my hero and I hope this fairytale never ends.”

Little House will mark the musician’s first project since What a Devastating Turn of Events arrived this past May. Earlier this week, Chinouriri kicked off her 20-date run across Europe, opening for Sabrina Carpenter on the Short n’ Sweet tour. In May, her debut North American headlining tour will begin with stops in New York, Montreal, Chicago, Denver, Portland, Los Angeles, and more.