Brazilian firebrand Karen Dio has set an August 21st release date for her second EP, Fugaz. The eagerly-awaited follow-up doubles down on the breakout success of her debut EP with 2024's My World. The six-track presentation will see a wide release via Hopeless Records.

To begin the campaign towards the summer release, Karen Dio has issued the first single from the project with the energized introduction of "Free Yourself." The liberating tone of the track is fueled by Dio's high-octane delivery that fuses raucous rock with the punch of punk for an electric 2 and a half minute jaunt. 

Dio shared of the single, “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. 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), he immediately was like, 'That's a hit!' so we started to write the rest. 

Dio continued, "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 (husband and writing collaborator) 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."

Karen Dio is currently on the road with a slate of European performances and festival appearances. A current list of dates can be found below. 

Fugaz, the new EP from Karen Dio arrives August 21st via Hopeless Records. Get the EP - HERE