by Hannah Frances
Photography by
Grant Hindsley
“Weaving avant-folk, progressive rock, and jazz—composer, vocalist, guitarist, and poet Frances cascades between the deft intimacy and the expansive magnificence of her interior world with the lucidity and incisiveness of both fire and water. Anchored with her signature vocal prowess and percussive polyrhythmic fingerpicking that she established on Keeper of the Shepherd, Frances evolves and challenges her own narratives and musicality opening with the titular instrumental piece that veers into spoken word poetry leading into ‘Life’s Work’ which was co-produced and arranged by Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear, along with ‘The Space Between.’” —Tasha Viets-Vanlear