Folded Paper Hearts

Chasing Ghosts Is Out Now: For Anyone Still Finding Where They Belong
Chasing Ghosts Is Out Now: For Anyone Still Finding Where They Belong
|Kelsey Rodgers
Chasing Ghosts is for anyone who feels left behind while everybody else seems to have found where they belong. Kelsey Rodgers shares how the song explores old versions of ourselves,... Read more...
Chasing Ghosts Arrives July 24
Chasing Ghosts Arrives July 24
|Kelsey Rodgers
Chasing Ghosts is about feeling left behind while everybody else seems to have found where they belong. Kelsey Rodgers shares the personal story behind the song and its anthem-like chorus. Read more...
Pride 2026: Making Space for Every Version of Yourself
Pride 2026: Making Space for Every Version of Yourself
|Kelsey Rodgers
Kelsey Rodgers reflects on Pride, changing identities and giving people room to understand themselves in their own time—without demanding explanations or a final version. Read more...
One Week With Borrowed Thread: Sometimes We Mistake Surviving for Healing
One Week With Borrowed Thread: Sometimes We Mistake Surviving for Healing
|Kelsey Rodgers
One week after releasing Borrowed Thread, Kelsey thanks everyone who streamed, shared and connected with the song’s message about surviving, healing and holding yourself together. Read more...
Borrowed Thread Is Out Now: A Song About Using Love Like Medicine
Borrowed Thread Is Out Now: A Song About Using Love Like Medicine
|Kelsey Rodgers
Borrowed Thread explores what happens when love becomes a temporary cure. Kelsey shares how the song moves between anxiety, addiction, medication and returning to something you know isnt healing you.... Read more...
Skeleton Sessions Is Out Now: Returning to the Stories Beneath the Songs
Skeleton Sessions Is Out Now: Returning to the Stories Beneath the Songs
|Kelsey Rodgers
Skeleton Sessions returns to previously released Folded Paper Hearts songs and strips back the production. Kelsey shares how addiction, friendship and honest conversations became the stories behind the lyrics. Read more...
Mental Health Month 2026: Healing Doesn’t Need to Look Perfect
Mental Health Month 2026: Healing Doesn’t Need to Look Perfect
|Kenneth Parsons
Kenneth Parsons reflects on losing his home, career and marriage while struggling with addiction—and learning that healing doesnt have to rebuild the exact life he had before.   Read more...
Skeleton Sessions Arrives May 8: The Songs Without the Layers
Skeleton Sessions Arrives May 8: The Songs Without the Layers
|Kenneth Parsons
Skeleton Sessions reimagines older Folded Paper Hearts songs with fewer layers and more room for the lyrics. Kenneth Parsons shares how songs like Monster and Quiet found a more open,... Read more...
The Quiet Damage: When Pain Becomes Part of an Ordinary Life
The Quiet Damage: When Pain Becomes Part of an Ordinary Life
|Kenneth Parsons
The Quiet Damage is out now. Kenneth reflects on the addiction, abuse, grief and hidden pain behind the album—and the difference between functioning and truly healing. Read more...
The Quiet Damage Arrives in 14 Days
The Quiet Damage Arrives in 14 Days
|Kenneth Parsons
The Quiet Damage was written after rehab, during the difficult return to ordinary life. The album explores addiction, abuse, anxiety and the pain people learn to hide while appearing fine. Read more...
A New Year Doesn’t Mean You Have to Become a New Person
A New Year Doesn’t Mean You Have to Become a New Person
|Kelsey Rodgers
A new year doesnt require a completely new version of you. Kelsey reflects on addiction, recovery and learning that real change happens through small, imperfect choices. Read more...
A Folded Paper Hearts Christmas: For Anyone Carrying Extra Weight This Season
A Folded Paper Hearts Christmas: For Anyone Carrying Extra Weight This Season
|Kelsey Rodgers
Christmas can make every absence feel louder. Kelsey writes about the father she never knew, her mother’s drinking and finding an unexpected kind of family with a few close friends... Read more...
Letting It Go! Is Out Now: Four Old Songs Given a New Life
Letting It Go! Is Out Now: Four Old Songs Given a New Life
|Kenneth Parsons
Four songs written by Joshua Arran and first performed by The Noisy Crows have been given a new pop-punk life while keeping the lyrics and heart of the originals. Read more...
Welcome to LA LA CIRCUS: Meet Maribel, the Doll Queen OUT NOW
Welcome to LA LA CIRCUS: Meet Maribel, the Doll Queen OUT NOW
|Lucas Vale
Meet Maribel, the Doll Queen, and enter the fictional world of LA LA CIRCUS—an album exploring abuse, manipulation and addiction through a dark circus story. Read more...
Something Wicked Is Coming: Pre-Save LA LA CIRCUS
Something Wicked Is Coming: Pre-Save LA LA CIRCUS
|Lucas Vale
Lucas Vale introduces LA LA CIRCUS, a fictional world built around Maribel, the Doll Queen, while exploring real themes of abuse, manipulation and addiction. Read more...
Day Nine Is Out Now: A Song About Hope, Waiting and Quiet Heartbreak
Day Nine Is Out Now: A Song About Hope, Waiting and Quiet Heartbreak
|Kelsey Rodgers
Kelsey Rodgers shares the story behind Day Nine, a song about miscarriage, grief, relationship strain and holding onto hope after loss. Read more...
Why Asking for Help Can Feel Harder Than Staying Silent
Why Asking for Help Can Feel Harder Than Staying Silent
|Kelsey Rodgers
Kelsey Rodgers shares why asking for help can feel so difficult after years of learning to stay quiet—and how one honest sentence can be the beginning of healing. Read more...
Writing What Comes Next: Planning the Next Six to Eight Months
Writing What Comes Next: Planning the Next Six to Eight Months
|Kenneth Parsons
Kenneth Parsons shares what Folded Paper Hearts was planning in August 2025, including Day Nine, a darker doll-inspired project, Skeleton Sessions and a new full-length album. Read more...
The Exhaustion of Pretending You’re Doing Fine
The Exhaustion of Pretending You’re Doing Fine
|Kelsey Rodgers
Kelsey Rodgers writes about hiding behind “I’m fine,” growing up in an unpredictable home and how exhausting it becomes when nobody knows you need help. Read more...
A Summer Update: Grateful and Keeping Family Close
A Summer Update: Grateful and Keeping Family Close
|Kenneth Parsons
Kenneth Parsons shares a quiet summer update about staying away from cocaine, living with his brother, spending time with family, writing music and taking better care of himself.   Read more...
Pride 2025: The Freedom to Be Seen, Heard and Fully Yourself
Pride 2025: The Freedom to Be Seen, Heard and Fully Yourself
|Kelsey Rodgers
Kelsey Rodgers reflects on growing up feeling judged, learning to hide parts of herself and why Pride represents the freedom to be seen without pretending. Read more...
The Story of Andy Andrews Recording “Orange Dress” at the Wrong Studio
The Story of Andy Andrews Recording “Orange Dress” at the Wrong Studio
|Lucas Vale
Session guitarist Andy Andrews went to the wrong recording studio, handed over the chords on his phone and recorded “Orange Dress”—costing us more money but leaving us with a story... Read more...
When I Couldn’t Trust My Own Mind: Addiction and Psychosis
When I Couldn’t Trust My Own Mind: Addiction and Psychosis
|Kenneth Parsons
Kenneth Parsons looks back on cocaine addiction, sleepless days, paranoia and psychosis—and how sobriety helped him trust his own mind again. Read more...
Anxiety Doesn’t Always Look Like Panic
Anxiety Doesn’t Always Look Like Panic
|Kelsey Rodgers
Kelsey Rodgers shares how anxiety can look like reading people’s moods, overthinking messages and preparing for danger—even when everything seems calm. Read more...
Mental Health Month: You Don’t Have to Struggle Loudly to Deserve Support
Mental Health Month: You Don’t Have to Struggle Loudly to Deserve Support
|Kenneth Parsons
Kenneth Parsons writes about working from home, hiding his mental-health struggles and realizing that being a functioning drinker is not the same as being sober or okay. Read more...
Recovery Isn’t a Straight Line: An Update From Lucas Vale
Recovery Isn’t a Straight Line: An Update From Lucas Vale
|Lucas Vale
Lucas Vale shares an honest update about relapsing into gambling, alcohol and shrooms—and how recovery can mean admitting the truth, accepting help and choosing to start again without erasing the... Read more...
The First Day of Rehab: What It Really Feels Like to Walk Through Those Doors
The First Day of Rehab: What It Really Feels Like to Walk Through Those Doors
|Kenneth Parsons
Walking into the Grace Center meant locked doors, difficult questions and finally admitting how bad things had become. I wanted to leave, but thinking about my infant son gave me... Read more...
When You Become So Used to Surviving That Peace Feels Uncomfortable
When You Become So Used to Surviving That Peace Feels Uncomfortable
|Kelsey Rodgers
If peace makes you anxious, it doesn’t mean you’re broken. When you’ve lived in survival mode for so long, even calm can feel unfamiliar. Learning to feel safe takes time—one... Read more...
What Addiction Took—and What Recovery Asked Me to Rebuild
What Addiction Took—and What Recovery Asked Me to Rebuild
|Kenneth Parsons
Addiction didn’t only take pieces of my life—it hurt the people trying to love me. Through the story behind “Monster,” I reflect on the damage I caused, the accountability recovery... Read more...
COLORS IN CHAOS: THE LYRICS WRITTEN IN REHAB
COLORS IN CHAOS: THE LYRICS WRITTEN IN REHAB
|Kenneth Parsons
Written during rehab at the Grace Center, Colors in Chaos grew from hundreds of messy lyric ideas, 19 different lives and the chaos that brought everyone together. Read more...