Madame Gandhi Releases Love Letters From Brooklyn, a Five-Track Album Built on Queer Love and Women-Led Collaboration

Madame Gandhi has released Love Letters From Brooklyn, a five-track album that documents queer love, long-distance intimacy, and the kind of creative process that doesn’t happen by accident. The record was built through an all-women, three-day songwriting camp at Hyperballad Music in Brooklyn, developed in partnership with Gender Amplified, an organization dedicated to empowering women and gender-expansive music producers, with equitable splits across every collaborator involved.

The album spans R&B, organic pop, and electronic production, moving between the cosmic optimism of opener “You Are Love(d)” and the warm, magnetic pull of “Gold” — a track dedicated to Gandhi’s long-distance partner, gold-medalist boxer Lesley Sackey. The five songs share a connective tissue: live instrumentation layered against electronic textures, vocal performances that prioritize rawness over polish, and lyrics that treat intimacy as a subject worth taking seriously.

Madame Gandhi marked the release with two separate events on opposite coasts. The first was a launch party on March 20th at National Sawdust in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, co-presented with Gender Amplified, where her partner Sackey and her mother, New York humanitarian Meera Gandhi, were both in attendance. The evening included a live band performance, a spring equinox grounding meditation, album previews, and a vinyl signing. A month later, on April 16th, she brought the album to Los Angeles, performing at Agora Records in the Arts District in a show co-presented with Gender Amplified and hosted by MELT Collective. Both events drew engaged, intimate crowds — the kind that show up because they already understand what’s at stake.

For Madame Gandhi — a TED Fellow, Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, and former drummer for GRAMMY-nominated M.I.A. — Love Letters From Brooklyn marks her second all-women writing camp project and the most personal entry in a catalog that includes Let Me Be Water (2025), Vibrations (2022), Visions (2019), and Voices (2016). Where those records leaned into percussive energy and activist messaging at scale, this one pulls the focus inward — and it’s a direction that suits her.