Ella Langley’s sophomore album Dandelion is out April 10, executive produced by Langley herself alongside Miranda Lambert and Ben West. The collaboration with Lambert is the detail that tells you what kind of record this is: personal, produced by women who have skin in the game of what country music sounds like, 18 tracks of material that Langley has described as her most honest work.

“Choosin’ Texas” was already a Number One hit before the album arrives, spending four weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 as an album preview. The music video features Luke Grimes and cameos from Miranda Lambert, Kaitlin Butts, and others. It’s the kind of commercial success that creates expectation, and Dandelion‘s job is to meet it with something that goes deeper than one song.

The album title, Langley has said, symbolizes hope and resilience, the dandelion as something that thrives in harsh conditions. That’s a specific and apt framing for where she sits in the country landscape: an artist who built an audience without Nashville’s full commercial machinery behind her, who’s now at the level where the machinery wants in on what she’s doing.

The Lambert executive producer credit isn’t ceremonial. Lambert has shaped her own career with an unusual degree of creative control and brought that same instinct to this collaboration. What that means for the production and the song selection of Dandelion will be clear on April 10.

Dandelion is out April 10 on SAWGOD/Columbia Records.