M for Empathy

My new album ’M for Empathy' is mostly things said or shoulda said, heard or shoulda. Much of it, and it's just a lil, came to me, or outta me, outta a deepening silence. Something you can hear a lot of I hope. It let me voice again. It also let me not, and only sing as much as I wanted, which is important too. Making peace with the word in me, just a lil, all my might. xo, Hannah

The Texas songwriter examines empathy in a series of probing and gemlike miniatures.

The music that Hannah Read makes as Lomelda is for quiet spaces. The soft, propulsive folk-rock of her LP Thx, a standout release from 2017,...