Karen Dió drops new single Free Yourself from forthcoming EP Fugaz

Karen Dió has dropped a new single, Free Yourself, and announced her second EP Fugaz.

“Funnily enough, Free Yourself is a song that I dreamed of. Most of the time I unfortunately forget the songs by the time I'm awake, but I'm glad I remembered this one,” Karen says.

“Later the same day, I decided to work on it and the melody of the chorus immediately came. When I showed the embryo of it to Matt (Bigland of Dinosaur Pile-Up, Karen’s husband and writing partner), he immediately was like, 'That's a hit!' so we started to write the rest.

“During the whole process of writing Free Yourself we would remind ourselves to be completely free with our creativity and, to be honest, to try being ridiculous sometimes. One of my favourite parts of the song came from an improvisation where I said ‘Jeans are dangerous,’ and Matt thought it was great, but he thought I said ‘Genes are dangerous.’ We loved both quotes, but we decided to go with ‘Genes are dangerous’ because it felt more provocative."

Check it out below:

Meanwhile, the EP Fugaz - which follows 2024’s My World - will drop on August 21 and is set to explore the passage of time, personal freedom and the feeling of eternal youth that comes from experience rather than nostalgia.

Its tracklisting is:

1. Euphoria
2. Free Yourself
3. Choke
4. Crawling
5. Rat Race
6. Fugaz

And the artwork:

Catch her live at the following:

Karen Dió 2026 summer tour dates

July

7 Bristol The Croft
8 Cheltenham 2000trees Festival

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