Award winning Bay Area singer-songwriter, Zoe FitzGerald Carter, releases her fourth solo album, Chaos by Design, on October 28, 2026. Across twelve richly imagined tracks, the music evokes both the sepia-toned warmth of a California summer and the whisper of a late-night conversation with ghosts. Emerging from the mists of memory and association, longing and loss, Chaos by Design seeks to capture moments of beauty and meaning in an increasingly chaotic world.
Zoe’s album release show for Chaos by Design will be at the iconic Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley, CA on October 28, 2026!
Tickets here.
Starlight Blue
"Zoe manages to preserve the tone of a mesmerizing lullaby throughout, carried by a haunting western atmosphere, that suggests the elusiveness of the people in power and the total agency they hold over young women." – Hannah Means-Shannon on Wildfire
Before The Machine won the Corpus Christi Songwriting Contest and the music video premiered on Americana UK and placed in the New Zealand and Vienna film festivals.
Live Performance Reel
I Wanna Be A Teenage Boy
This song was written during the Brett ("she's confused, it wasn't him") Kavanaugh hearings. It was a collaboration between singer/songwriter Zoe FitzGerald Carter and keyboardist, Hindy Bare.
These Words
These Words is from Zoe's album, Waterlines (released March 26, 2021).
“Zoe’s writing talent is boundless. Her stories captivate even before you add the music. Each song is like a film. It takes you on a journey. And her voice is mesmerizing – crystalline, clear and cool.”
— Producer Jeffrey Wood (Fantasy Records)