Nested in Tangles

After a 2024 breakthrough album about her father’s death, the audacious Vermont singer-songwriter squares up to her mother’s living absence—and, without her, finds her own way forward.

In the images of life-spanning hurt on Nested in Tangles, Hannah Frances never reaches for catchiness, only the discordant, zagging prog-folk that soothes the bedlam written within her.

Wayward tempos and snapping drums break fresh ground in this unruly release from the Vermont musician