Earthstar Mountain: Yellow Vinyl LP
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Label: Bella Union
Release Date: 28th March
Full disclosure: I've got the listening link on this record and goodness me is it something else. It's an escape to the country, explore the vastness of the American landscape in song folk, soul and rock album. At moments it reminds me of the psychedelic soul of Minnie Riperton, the big folk rock mystic sound of Stevie Nicks but really this is Hannah Cohen's best work and clearly operating at a whole new level.
It asks what it means to live a life: how do we decide which direction to take? How do we stay there? And what happens when the rug is pulled from under our feet? Once again working with her partner and collaborator Sam Evian at their home studio Flying Cloud, Hannah Cohen's fourth full-length album Earthstar Mountain, is a keepsake of Cohen's time in the Catskills, built over the course of 2020-2024, as blurred, shimmering memories come into focus to produce a collage of echoes and sonic souvenirs.
Featuring contributions from Sufjan Stevens, Clairo, Sean Mullins, Liam Kazar, Oliver Hill and more, Earthstar Mountain is a love letter to the Catskills and in the interconnectedness of all things: in her past, present, future and alternative selves, in her friends--here and gone--and in the mountain that peers through her windows.