hemlocke springs has announced her debut album, the apple tree under the sea. The follow-up to 2023’s Going…Going…Gone! EP arrives February 13 via AWAL. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the idiosyncratic single ‘head, shoulders, knees and ankles’. Check it out below.
“I grew up very religiously—Christianity is very pertinent in Nigerian culture and the Black community—and I was also obedient to my elders,” hemlocke reflected. “This album starts with a character going through the desert who says, ‘I’m going to do your will.’ They could be saying it to God or a man, but then they come across the apple. It’s about me being in this bubble, and realizing that being in that bubble was tougher than I thought, and then finally getting out and exploring who I really am.”
