Exclusive: Hannah Cohen Announces New Album Earthstar Mountain
The LP is set to arrive March 28 via Bella Union & Congrats Records. Listen to "Earthstar" below.
Photo by Josh Goleman
Today, Hannah Cohen has announced her first album since 2019, Earthstar Mountain. The Welcome Home follow-up is due out March 28 via Bella Union and Congrats Records and, coinciding with the announcement, Cohen has shared its entrancing, quasi-title track lead single, “Earthstar.”
Written and recorded between 2020 and 2024, Earthstar Mountain largely functions as an ode to the Catskills Mountains, a part of New York Cohen has called home since 2018. Despite her home’s secludedness, she assembled the album with an all-star cast of friends—Cohen’s partner, Sam Evian, served as producer, and the songs feature collaborators like Sufjan Stevens (Cohen appeared on Stevens’ 2023 masterwork, Javelin), Clairo, Sean Mullins, Oliver Hill and Liam Kazar.
“Earthstar” is psych-folk perfection, as serene as the cascading waterfall and verdant green featured in the accompanying music video. Cohen’s voice is lush and irresistible, and she sounds squarely at home—not only among her surroundings, but also with herself. She spins the maddening mysteriousness of love into something as natural—and as wondrously breathtaking—as the sunlit strumming, celestial synth flourishes and sweeping strings over which her meditative lyrics soar and swoon.
“Photographer CJ Harvey and I set out to film a love letter to the Catskill Mountains over four seasons,” Cohen says of “Earthstar.” “We took our time over a year to capture moving portraits in some of our favorite swimming holes, creeks, waterfalls and fern gullies deep in the Catskill Mountain forests. The entire video for ‘Earthstar’ was all shot on 16 mm film.”
“For me, ‘Earthstar’ is about the complexity of connection, the risk and vulnerability of love,” she continues. “The song grapples with the idea that ultimately, we will never completely know someone.”
Watch the music video for “Earthstar” and check out the Earthstar Mountain album artwork and tracklist below.
Earthstar Mountain Artwork:
Earthstar Mountain Tracklist:
Dusty
Draggin’
Mountain
Earthstar
Rag
Una Spiaggia
Summer Sweat
Shoe
Baby You’re Lying
Dog Years
You can download “Earthstar” and pre-order Earthstar Mountain here.