As much as label problems fed the 7-year delay between Esthero’s albums, the singer conceded to the Washington Post that “a lot of it had to do with me. But being where I am now — and I’m going to sound like a hippie — the journey makes sense, and it doesn’t seem that long anymore. It seems totally natural that I put one foot in front of the other and took the steps I took to get where I am now and to finish the piece of art that I made. It’s what it needed, and I think I learned enough and made so many mistakes that it’s not going to take that long again. It’s really about what the universe allows. Sometimes you’re supposed to be there and you’re supposed to be working and doing things and it just doesn’t come, and that’s what I told the label. If it doesn’t come when I want it, why should it come when you want it to?” Read more.

Jim Farber of the New York Daily News caught up with Esthero to talk about her new album ‘Wikked Lil’ Grrrls’, a disc seven years in the making since her ‘Breath From Another’ debut in 1998. “The first album seeped in,” Esthero explained. “It was figurative rather than literal. This one is more present – more in your ear.”