My favorite artist of the year is this girl Hannah Cohen. She just put out an album called Welcome Home. I heard about her because we were looking for openers on my tour and somebody suggested her — I normally don’t listen to music when people send it to me, honestly, but I listened to it. I didn’t know her, but I heard it on tour in June, and still to this day it’s my top listened-to album. And I still haven’t met her, but we talk a lot — I tried to get her to do both of my tours this year, but she was on tour with other people.
The instrumentation is really unique to me. Listening to some of her other records, she has a very poppy voice, but this record was almost like Andy Shauf-arranged. It was very rare, to me. My favorite song is called “Get In Line.” I like it because my brain couldn’t have thought of that. If I had written that song, no way my recording would sound the same.
I always get kind of a nostalgia feeling listening to something, being taken back to a certain time or place or sense of smell even, and I think the album does that to me still. It’s so current.
As told to Annie Fell.
