Hannah Cohen – Earthstar Mountain (2025) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Hannah Cohen – Earthstar Mountain (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:17 minutes | 730 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock, Indie Pop, Singer-Songwriter
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Once again working with her partner and collaborator Sam Evian at their home studio Flying Cloud, Earthstar Mountain is a keepsake of this last half-decade, as blurred, shimmering memories come into focus to produce a collage of echoes and sonic souvenirs. Featuring contributions from Sufjan Stevens, Clairo and more, Earthstar Mountain is a love letter to the Catskills and in the interconnectedness of all things.After releasing her third solo album, Welcome Home, in 2019, Hannah Cohen was sidelined like everyone else in the music industry by the COVID-19 pandemic. She went on to help her partner, Sam Owens (aka Sam Evian), convert their home and barn in the Catskills into a recording studio and retreat dubbed Flying Cloud Recordings, and she turned up on other artists’ recordings, among them Big Thief’s Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You, Sufjan Stevens’ Javelin, and John Legend’s My Favorite Dream. In the meantime, she worked on her fourth album, Earthstar Mountain, a set six years in the making that opens with the words “It’s not supposed to be this hard/Everything’s changin’.” Recorded at Flying Cloud and produced by Evian, it picks up where the dreamy Welcome Home left off, taking its ’70s AM radio-evoking vibe even further for her dreamiest outing yet. To give a sense of its softness, it was fashioned with participation from the likes of Sufjan, Clairo, Liam Kazar, strings specialist Oliver Hill (Dirty Projectors, Pavo Pavo), and percussionist Sean Mullins (Will Stratton, Kate Bollinger). That opening track, “Dusty,” sets the stage not only with a wide-angle world view that addresses the qualities of change, time, sound, and “the things you find playing around with your mind” but with a lush, reverb-tinged soft rock palette that includes strings, flute voices, claves and shakers, an easygoing funk groove, and wispy, multi-tracked vocals that seem to float in from an altered reality, like a Teletubbies sunrise. At the same time that Earthstar Mountain is otherworldly, it’s comforting and familiar, with songs that suggest everything from loungey disco-soul (“Summer Sweat”) and Morricone (the quasi-instrumental “Una Spiaggia”) to Fleetwood Mac (“Mountain”), for starters. The latter song is a melancholy one inspired by loss (“Losing you is a mountain of stillness”) and featuring Stevens on backing vocals. Even on songs that grieve, however, the album’s breezy character never subsides, with centerpiece “Earthstar” perhaps best exemplifying its twinkling, well-padded universe in which one can safely wonder if you can ever really know anyone. In addition to Earthstar Mountain’s consistently warm soundscape, Cohen is at her most accomplished yet songwriting-wise, even offering up an ode to a “Rag” that strips things down to notice the small comforts all around. – Marcy Donelson

Tracklist:

1-1. Hannah Cohen – Dusty (04:05)
1-2. Hannah Cohen – Draggin’ (04:35)
1-3. Hannah Cohen – Mountain (03:59)
1-4. Hannah Cohen – Earthstar (04:03)
1-5. Hannah Cohen – Rag (03:05)
1-6. Hannah Cohen – Una Spiaggia (01:44)
1-7. Hannah Cohen – Summer Sweat (04:06)
1-8. Hannah Cohen – Shoe (03:23)
1-9. Hannah Cohen – Baby You’re Lying (03:22)
1-10. Hannah Cohen – Dog Years (04:50)

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