"Hannah, the third full-length album by the Texan singer-songwriter Lomelda, continues her project of condensing sprawling musical ideas into bite-size bits. On one standout track, she name-drops herself alongside Frank Ocean and Frankie Cosmos, two artists with whom she shares a knack for poignant introspection."
-The New York Times
"Hannah Read doesn't need much beyond a guitar and her mighty voice to craft songs that continue to leave an impression long after they've finished. 'Wonder,' evokes just what its title suggests, facing down the expanses of the unknown with wide-eyed determination."
-The FADER
"Offers encouragement in the face of uncertainty... The arrangement is straightforward-assertive drums, a medley of guitars-but Read imbues this foundation with emotion."
-Pitchfork
"Hannah feels warm and immensely comforting. It radiates light even in its darkest moments. At the center of all of these songs is Read's remarkable voice, which sounds swallowed up and wide open all at once."
-Stereogum
"Meditative and beautiful."
-NPR
"Truly lovely and wondrous music... Hannah Read's songs as Lomelda are both tender and devastatingly cathartic."
-VICE
"Hannah Read makes folk songs that have entire universes inside of them."
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"Introspective, insightful, and honest."
-Consequence of Sound
"Hannah Read does what she does best on her latest album, Hannah. Namely, 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."
-Under The Radar
"In usual Lomelda fashion, the song is cathartic and vulnerable. It's soft but it builds into something powerful and poignant."
-Paste
"Deeply personal... showcases some of Read's most unflinching songwriting and varied arrangements to date."
-American Songwriter
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Lomelda is Hannah Read's musical project. In swampy, sweaty, Silsbee, TX, she first formed the band with her high school best friends. Throughout the next decade, Lomelda mad a habit out of stretching to fit new friendships and shrinking down to solo strummings. Four albums and a never-the-same live show chronicle these shifts in shape and sound.
Lomelda's fifth, upcoming album is called Hannah. The album stretches and shrinks into many of Lomelda's different forms, from expansive "Wonder" and rock band "Reach" to meandering "Stranger Sat By Me" and finger picking "It's Infinite". Through this range of moods, Hannah sings stories of strangers, suns, dogs, moms, brothers, favorite bands, "oh god!"s and big shots as well as herself, by name. She rejoices and reviles her god-given name and then flips it around to name herself Hannah once again. It is an album of confession and transformation made ultimately singable.
Hannah was produced by Hannah and her brother Tommy Read at his studio in Silsbee, TX. Over the span of a year and some change, it was recorded three different times before Hannah called it complete. In this, its final 14 song shape, Hannah will be released tomorrow, September 4th, by Double Double Whammy.
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LOMELDA
HANNAH
DOUBLE DOUBLE WHAMMY
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
1. Kisses
2. Hannah Sun
3. Sing for Stranger
4. Wonder
5. Polyurethane
6. Reach
7. It's Lomelda
8. Stranger Sat By Me
10. Hannah Happiest
11. Both Mode
12. Big Shot
13. Tommy Dread
14. Hannah Please
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