Biita Houdei has announced her debut album, This Bed Was Made For Me, out 18th September via Basin Rock in Europe and Father/Daughter in North America. To mark it, she’s shared a new single and video, The Ground Here, featuring Big Thief guitarist Buck Meek.
Following debut single Life Inside The Hourglass, The Ground Here moves from the driest stretch of a California summer to the rivers of Houdei’s Ozark home in Missouri. Raised a creek and river swimmer, she wrote it in Topanga while missing winter for the first time in her life — a plea for rain, and for taking better care of the land.
Meek’s guitar arrived late in the process. “As the recording came together in the studio, I couldn’t stop thinking ‘What if Buck contributed his beautiful guitar playing to this song?'” Houdei says. “Then I couldn’t unhear the potential of him singing along toward the end. I asked, he was down.”
Produced by fellow songwriter Haley Heynderickx in her first lead production role, with producer/engineer Sahil Ansari, This Bed Was Made For Me runs to fourteen songs across roughly forty-five minutes. It was cut over ten back-to-back days that began with fermented tea and ended with a shared meal, a number of the songs written in Topanga as Biita settled into a new home with wildfires raging nearby.
She sewed a patch for every song as she worked; together they became a quilt that now sits on the album’s cover. Biita — “unique” in Farsi, a name gifted by her auntie — asks listeners to give the record time, away from playlists and algorithms.
Pre-Order ‘This Bed Was Made For Me’ (18th September 2026 on Basin Rock / Father Daughter): https://biitahoudei.lnk.to/thisbedwasmadeforme
Live dates:
10th Oct — Todmorden, UK — Natural Endings
13th Oct — Birmingham, UK — Hare & Hounds
14th Oct — London, UK — The Old Church Stoke Newington
15th Oct — Freiburg, Germany — Slow Club
16th Oct — Rodgau, Germany — Maximal Cultural Initiative
19th Oct — Mainz, Germany — Schik
20th Oct — Rotterdam, Netherlands — Lab Grounds
21st Oct — Köln, Germany — die wohngemeinschaft
23rd Oct — København, Denmark — Råhuset
24th Oct — Fehmarn, Germany — Café liebevoll
25th Oct — Husum, Germany — Speicher
26th Oct — Lübeck, Germany — Tonfink Kulturcafé & Bar
29th Oct — Hamburg, Germany — Hafenbahnhof
30th Oct — Berlin, Germany — The Fahrradkeller
31st Oct — Cottbus, Germany — Galerie Fango
2nd Nov — Chemnitz, Germany — INSPIRE
3rd Nov — Munich, Germany — Lost Weekend
4th Nov — Vienna, Austria — Sargfabrik