On Lomelda’s latest release, Hannah, brother and sister Hannah and Tommy Read, pair up to produce an album that captures not only Hannah’s namesake, but the journey she has had with the project. Produced in Texas, where Hannah originally formed Lomelda with some high school friends, Hannah mirrors the waxing and waning the band has had over the last decade. At times Lomelda’s fifth album is slow, calculated, and somber, such as on “Polyurethane”, and at others loud, chaotic, drowning in emotion, and sound, as on “Wonder.” Throughout Hannah the eponym of the album breaks down and establishes her own identity.

By Emma Chekroun