For the next issue of Cannopy Magazine, we’re asking artists a simple question: Are You In Love? We want to get a sense of how they fell in love with their latest project, and how the many loves of their lives can be channeled into one artistic vessel.
Next up: Allison Russell
Canadian singer-songwriter Allison Russell’s voice has always worked like a held hand: steady, warm, refusing to let go even when everything around it is falling apart. On her upcoming third studio album, In the Hour of Chaos (out July 10 via Fantasy Records), that instinct becomes the entire architecture of the record: a sprawling, collaborative song suite built less around solo confession than around chosen family, each track a small portal into someone else’s voice folded into her own. Yesterday, on Juneteenth, she shared the latest of those portals: “Black Lavender,” a duet with Brittney Spencer that turns the act of extending grace to a sister into its own kind of protest.
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