Just days before the release of her debut album, 'Visitor,' SIENNA SPIRO sat down with Bru inside our Los Angeles studios to talk about her love of the longform experience, the experience of crafting her album, and her excitement for what’s next.

“It's like giving birth,” the UK singer says of releasing her first LP. “I know people describe it a lot like that, but you know it's like having a child, carrying a child for two years and you're working so much on it and so much care and so much intention and time and everything, and then you just have to let it go.”

“I'd be lying if I said I didn't want people to like it. I hope people like it and I hope I get to sing it for a long time.”

The good news is, 'Visitor' has already received critical acclaim, with some outlets dubbing her the “next pop superhero” or the “next singer-songwriter to watch.” She’s done it by delivering on the promise of her timeless voice, creating a cohesive story that begs to unfold across a full album in an arena that has gotten quicker and more singular in recent years.

“I always was gonna make a project called ‘Visitor’ and it was gonna have a song called ‘The Visitor’ on it,” SPIRO tells Bru. “I actually originally was gonna make it an EP or a mix tape and that's because I had a very specific idea of how I thought an album should be made.”

“The way people received those songs gave me the confidence to make it an album and also it's really something I really cared about, like the concept of ‘Visitor.’ I really thought it would be a disservice to not see it as a full project, a full album.”

According to SIENNA, the song “The Visitor” explains it all, with the rest of the project being built around that sentiment or idea. “I feel like that song kind of articulates the experience of how I feel being a visitor, like this fear of impermanence and, you know, being temporary and like how fragile these relationships are and being aware of that.”

For much more from SIENNA SPIRO, check out the full Audacy Check In above. 'Visitor' is now available everywhere.

High atop New York City in the Rockstar Suite at Hard Rock Hotel New York, Niall Horan joined us this week to talk about the making of his 4th studio album, 'Dinner Party,' now available everywhere.

The “Tastes So Good” singer also talks about his experience mentoring artists and how he manages to maintain a private life, during our Audacy Check In hosted by Mike Adam, as Niall opens up about the challenge of balancing high-profile fame with a "normal" life.

“Making the music, promoting it, you know, touring is like one thing and then being at home, just chilling out and walking a dog and doing stuff around the house is kind of the other separate life," he admits.

Early in his career, there was "no off switch," but he has since learned to separate his professional commitments and spending time at home in London. “I've just always tried to be myself no matter what what I'm doing, I suppose, and then I guess people have latched onto that over the years in different ways, whether it be the music or the tours or ‘The Voice’ or I don't know what it is, but people are still coming and I'm forever grateful for that.”

'Dinner Party' is the 4th solo project from Horan, and one that found its “jumping off point” in its title track, despite it coming further into the process. “I'd written quite a few ideas up to that point, but I'd say ‘Dinner Party’ was a couple of months in,” he shares, “and then I was like, ‘alright, well now I'd write the rest of the album around that evening,’ so I didn't have to go much further than that.”

“I also felt like ‘Dinner Party’ sounded like an interesting title, as in like you don't really hear album titles called something like that. So that's where it came from, really.”

To hear more from Niall about his experience on ‘The Voice,’ his songwriting process, and touring with Thomas Rhett, check out the full conversation above.

After 20 years of shredding, Five Finger Death Punch is just as ferocious as ever, proving so on the newly released single, “Eye Of The Storm”

Guitarist Zoltan Bathory linked back up with Abe Kanan recently for an Audacy Check In, discussing Five Finger Death Punch’s upcoming world tour, and the mission while making new music.

Bathory describes their new single, "Eye of the Storm," as a balance between the band's heavier and lighter styles, serving as a representative sample of their upcoming album. “We picked that song because that was one of the first ones that was ready from the batch,” Zoltan says of work on the new LP. “Ivan is actually in the studio right now, still recording vocals.”

“That was kind of the song that we thought that would represent the upcoming album the best,” he reveals. “This is kind of a song in the middle, right? We have heavier stuff and we have a little bit lighter stuff, so that was right in the middle and that's kind of like the idea there that ‘OK, let's pick this one because it is a pretty good indicator of what's coming,’ and it seems like everybody was super excited about it.”

“It's a little bit heavier, a little bit more guitar,” Bathory describes. “We're kind of dipping back into the beginnings, the 1st 2, 3 records, it has a similarity. Of course, you have to always progress, so we're not gonna go back and repeat that, but there is a little bit of that first, you know, 3 records aggression in this one.”

Zoltan also opened up about the band's songwriting process, which relies on a "vault" of riffs and songs accumulated over many years, such as "Wrong Side of Heaven" and "The Bleeding," which were written long before they became hits. Bathory explains that assembling an album is like a puzzle, requiring a balance between heavy tracks and ballads to avoid monotony.

“It has to kind of have the ups and downs,” he says. “It has to have the super heavy stuff and you it has to have a couple of ballads, so that's always been the thing, and sometimes it just simply, you know, ‘OK, we have already 2, 3 slow songs on this record, we have 5 more, but I can't put it on the same record because it's too much,’ right? So that's how it works.”

“Things are coming out of the vault, there are some new things, and then we look at what we have, and then assemble the record that we think is the right one for the times.”

For more from Zoltan Bathory including a tour of his castle, and the band's commitment to charity and helping the US Judo team, check out the full conversation above.