Julia Wolf hands Lamb's fear to Kellin Quinn
Julia Wolf's new single runs two minutes twenty-four, with Sleeping with Sirens' Kellin Quinn on the other side of the trust. It is her shortest release yet.
BY JOLT Staff · SEP 22 2026 · 1 min readJulia Wolf's Lamb runs two minutes twenty-four and brings Sleeping with Sirens' Kellin Quinn into the room. It goes at the space between trusting someone and being afraid of them. Out September 9, it is her shortest release, and the one with the least room to hide in.
Wolf is a New York dark-pop artist four records deep: Girls in Purgatory in 2021, Good Thing We Stayed in 2023, then 2MUCHPRESSURE and PRESSURE in 2025. The rise in the States came early and the UK has been slower, which is what the autumn tour is for. She still names Jane Remover and the bedroom-DIY crowd as the influence.
“they feel seen and understood, their intrusive thoughts are the same ones that I’m having. We’re all the same in that moment.”
The single is a bet on the pairing: dark pop handing part of its fear to a voice built for post-hardcore volume. Its subject is surrender with nothing guaranteed, handing yourself to someone who becomes either an anchor or the reason you break. Wolf likens it to Deep End, and the writing still arrives as word vomit alone in her room.
At two minutes twenty-four the song has one move to make: state the fear, take the hand, stop.
It is for anyone already inside dark pop, and for Sleeping with Sirens fans willing to hear Quinn in a quieter frame. Her audience, in her own words, is the people whose intrusive thoughts are the same as hers.
What does not work is the clock. Two minutes twenty-four is one hook's worth of room, and a song that wants to weigh trust against fear is over before it can test either. Deep End had longer to argue.
It still lands. There is no shelf life to music, she has said, which is the right patience for a single this spare: 3.5, good rather than strong, and a fair advert for the two nights at KOKO in November. The fear can wait for 2027.
