Hannah Cohen today announces her fourth full length album, Earthstar Mountain, due March 28, 2025 via Bella Union/Congrats Records. The LP was Produced by Sam Evian at Flying Cloud Recordings and features collaborators, including Sufjan Stevens, Clairo, Liam Kazar, Oliver Hill and Sean Mullins.

Ahead of the LP’s arrival, Cohen has shared lead single “Earthstar.” On the track, Cohen highlights the risk of love and how you can never really know someone, even those closest to you. The kaleidoscopically serene synths tell us there is a peacefulness, a beauty, in facing this truth. Change is hard, but changing alongside someone is a divine privilege. Cohen went on to note “For me “Earthstar” is about the complexity of connection, the risk and vulnerability of love. The song grapples with the idea that ultimately, we will never completely know someone.”

“Earthstar” arrives with a with a video directed and filmed by CJ Harvey. Of the video, which summons the magic of Cohen’s idyllic home in the Catskills, Hannah tells Paste Magazine, “Photographer CJ Harvey and I set out to film a love letter to the Catskill Mountains over four seasons. 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.”

Since her move to the Catskills in 2018, Hannah Cohen hikes with her rescue dog Jan every day. In the woods, they witness the color of change, the verdant resilience of softness and the necessary cycles of demise and vitality. It’s been five years since her last full length record and in that bubble of time, Cohen has learned the patience of her environment; to stay quiet until the noise starts to make sense. Her new collection of songs, Earthstar Mountain, is a keepsake of Cohen’s time in the Catskills, built over the course of 2020-2024, as blurred, shimmering memories come into focus to produce a collage of echoes and sonic souvenirs.

Drawing from their shared love of Dusty Springfield, Gal Costa, Minnie Riperton, Ennio Morricone, Neil Young and Sly & The Family Stone, Cohen and Owens began to experiment with arrangements that feel both familiar and entirely new. They welcomed friends to the process––Sufjan Stevens, Sean Mullins, Oliver Hill, Claire Cottrill (Clairo), Liam Kazar and more––and it was the encouragement of those who most inspired her, and the quietude of her beautiful life, that the pieces of Earthstar Mountain started to make sense.

Earthstar Mountain is an ode to curiosity. It asks what it means to live a life: how do we decide which direction to take? How do we stay there? And what happens when the rug is pulled from under our feet? This indecision is embraced and emphasized, underlined in a wandering doodle. “I’ve always wanted a certain life, but then I also want another kind of life,” she says. “They both hover over me all the time.” There is power and release in this observation: the duality of self, of light and dark, stillness and movement, lovers and strangers. A life exists because these dualities cohabitate––the universe within ourselves and the universe outside. The struggle is where clarity is formed and Cohen, ever-open to the possibilities, invites us to take a walk in the woods with her. Like the 1882 lithograph adorning the cover, there’ll be a beautiful view waiting for you whichever path you choose.

Hannah Cohen
Earthstar Mountain
Tracklisting:

01 – Dusty
02 – Draggin’
03 – Mountain
04 – Earthstar
05 – Rag
06 – Una Spiaggia
07 – Summer Sweat
08 – Shoe
09 – Baby You’re Lying
10 – Dog Years

pre-order Earthstar Mountain by Hannah Cohen HERE