Listen in on whispers of waves and wind, launch from safe harbors, fight flood and fire.  Flood, Fire & Honey—the second album from New York rock band Clare Maloney & the Great Adventure (out Oct. 24th)—is a journey into the unknown, a call to adventure, and a warrior’s odyssey through isolation, storm, and search for home.

The opening scene, and first single, “The Flood” (released May 2025), begins with an epic storm. Recorded live in a single take, the track captures the raw electricity the band is known for: thunderous rhythms, surging guitars, and Clare Maloney’s opera-trained, gale-force vocals raging above the torrent with fury and wonder.

For Maloney, the album’s elemental themes reflect a deeply personal struggle:

“Floods and fires became powerful metaphors for the internal storms I was facing,” she shares. “They mirrored the destruction of everything I thought I knew about myself—and the process of sifting through the wreckage to understand what was worth rebuilding. These songs became my way of making sense of that chaos.”

Determined to capture their collective spirit, the band recorded Flood, Fire & Honey live over five focused days at Ponderosa Studios in Lafayette, NJ. They lived above the studio, wrote and finished songs on the fly, and leaned on each other through every step. This trust and urgency fueled performances from Maloney and Nate De Brine (vocals, guitar), Caleb Estey (drums, vocals), and Russell Gottlieb (bass, banjo). Together they shaped not just songs, but a story—layering lyrics, arrangements, and emotion into a unified whole.

That cohesion has been forged onstage. Since their 2022 debut Daybreaker, the NY/NJ-based foursome has played over 250 shows, refining their spellbinding live sound while sharing bills with icons like Pat Benatar, Robert Plant & Allison Krauss, Los Lobos, The Wailers, and Kevin Bacon’s Bacon Brothers among others.

Produced by the band, engineered and mixed by Tom Askin, and mastered by Sam Stauff, Flood, Fire & Honey is both survival story and sonic adventure—an album that surges, burns, and ultimately shines with hard-won light.