Aaron Carter’s Family Drop Single ‘Recovery’ Ahead of Posthumous Album

The family of Aaron Carter is honoring the life of the late musician by releasing music he worked on before his untimely death. On Friday, Aaron’s twin sister, Angel Carter, and his producer, Aaron Pearce, released the single “Recovery.”

The track will be featured on an upcoming LP titled The Recovery Album, out May 24, and will include recorded music from more than 10 years ago. The song’s lyrics hear Carter trying to find optimism amid struggle: “Tomorrow is a new day / Tryin’ to shake the pain away / ‘Cause I’m still in recovery.”

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A portion of proceeds from both “Recovery” and the album will benefit mental health nonprofit The Kids Mental Health Foundation and a trust for Aaron’s son, Prince Lyric Carter.

“The fans have been asking for the music, and after Aaron passed away we put together a benefit concert to honor him called ‘The Songs for Tomorrow Concert,’ and we had played ‘Recovery’ during this show,” Angel said on CBS Mornings earlier this week. “And fans were just reaching out to Aaron Pearce and I, begging us to release this music. So, here we are today.”

The new single also arrives two days after Investigation Discovery released the trailer for Fallen Idols: Nick and Aaron Carter, a four-part series that will look at the sexual assault allegations leveled against Nick and the backlash against his accusers, along with Aaron’s struggles with mental health and substance-abuse issues, which ultimately led to his death in 2022.

Carter died on Nov. 5, 2022, after being found unresponsive in the bathtub of his home in Lancaster, California. According to a police report obtained by the Associated Press, Carter was last seen alive the day before his death by Sheriff’s deputies, who visited his home to conduct a welfare check after the singer was seen huffing on an Instagram live video. According to the report, Carter sent authorities home. His body was discovered by his housekeeper the next morning.

A coroner’s report said Aaron drowned after inhaling difluoroethane and taking a generic form of Xanax. The death was ruled as an accident.

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