Lomelda

Hannah

Read has opened up immensely on both an emotional and musical level, resulting in her most resonant body of work yet.

The stunning, open-hearted new album from indie rock singer-songwriter Hannah Read renders personal crises with a deft and delicate touch.

Hannah is taken straight from the mind of a wallflower, apprehensive and always low-key.

Read peels back the events of her life to reveal open-hearted ruminations on loneliness, long distances, chance encounters, and missed connections. All suffused with the appropriate amount of emotional depth and a warmly fuzzed lo-fi delivery.

Lomelda took over a year and three tries to record Hannah. They needed to get it right. They did.

Holding herself and her art to higher standards, Hannah is a capsule of acceptance, frustration, and growth; an artist making her devotion hold pockets of answerless questions and gracious light with a far reach.

Read and her brother Tommy’s masterful production immerses us in Hannah’s dreamscape, with flutes, milky pianos and soft acoustics buoying Hannah’s startlingly close voice.

Despite its searching, Hannah exudes a qualified, though not-at-all-false confidence.

Despite any of its mopier moments, Hannah is another solid piece of output from a dedicated and thoughtful lyricist.