Lilly Hiatt + St Catherine's Child

The last few years have been a little hazy for Lilly Hiatt.

‘I was on the phone with a friend recently who said she wasn’t sure where I’d been,’ Hiatt recalls. ‘I realised I wasn’t really too sure of that either.’

The search for answers – where she’s been, who she’s become, what it all means – lies at the heart of Hiatt’s striking new album, Forever. Written and recorded in Hiatt’s new home just outside Nashville, the collection grapples with growth and change, escape and anxiety, self-loathing and self-love. The songs are intensely vulnerable here, full of diaristic snapshots and deeply personal ruminations, but they’re also broad invitations to find yourself in Hiatt’s unflinching emotional excavations, to see your own humanity reflected back in her pursuit of something larger than herself. Hiatt cut the album with her husband, Coley Hinson, who produced and played most of the instruments on the record, and the result is a raw, unvarnished work of love and trust that walks the line between alt-rock muscle and singer/songwriter sensitivity, a bold, guitar-driven, at times psychedelic exploration of maturity and adulthood from an artist who wants you to know you’re not alone, no matter how lost you may feel.

Support is St Catherine’s Child. Transatlantic singer-songwriter Ilana Zsigmond is one of the rising stars of the Indie Folk/Americana scene. Having had interest from labels and publishers from both the UK and USA, she signed to TRO Essex Music and Shamus Records.

Presented by Hey! Manchester.

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