Jana Horn has announced a new self-titled album, which will be out on January 16 via No Quarter. To mark the news, she’s shared the quietly vivifying opening track, ‘Go on move your body’, with a video directed by Travis Kent and filmed around New York City. Check it out below.
Horn mostly wrote the album during her first year of living in New York, where she moved after completing a creative writing MFA in Charlottesville. ‘Go on, move your body’, though, dates back to her days in Austin, Texas, around the time that she self-released her debut album Optimism. “I can see how the conditions of my life may have caused it to resurface, but it wasn’t a conscious decision then,” Horn explained. “It just felt like it was time… to be reiterated.”
“Moving to New York after graduation had felt almost too right, like an arranged marriage,” Horn reflected. “I was pretty unhappy for a while. My life was still in Virginia, where my friends were, in Texas, where my mother was learning to live again after years of being passed from one hospital to the next… I drifted through the city in pajamas, at midday.”
Jana Horn follows 2023’s The Window Is The Dream. The singer-songwriter decamped to Sonic Ranch in Texas to record the album alongside drummer Adam Jones and bassist Jade Guterman, and she finished the last vocal and synth arrangements in her Brooklyn apartment. Adelyn Strei contributes flute and clarinet on a number of tracks.
“There’s some inherent conflict, I think, in any creation, but also apparently in our dynamic, and I wanted the recording to reflect that,” Horn said. “Our broken-down, elemental approach. As much as the music, the silence, space.”
Read our Artist Spotlight interview with Jana Horn.
Jana Horn Cover Artwork:
Jana Horn Tracklist:
1. Go on, move your body
2. Don’t think
3. All in bet
4. Come on
5. Love
6. It’s alright
7. Unused
8. Designer
9. Without
10. Untitled (Cig)
