LOS ANGELES, Aug. 15 -- The album that Courtney Love made while dying is, apparently, finished.

In a video posted to her Instagram on Thursday, the Hole frontwoman said her first solo album in 22 years is complete, a record she made largely from hospital beds during a 2019 health crisis so severe that her doctors told her she would not survive it. "I almost died," Love said. "I lost all my hair. I was about 100 pounds. And they told me I was going to die."

She didn't. And the album, which has no title, no announced label, and no release date, exists in part because Love treated it as a final project. "When I made [the record], I believed this was my last record so I made the record I always wanted to make."

The announcement arrived wit...