Hannah Frances Announces New Album, Nested in Tangles (out 10/10 on Fire Talk), & Headlining Tour | Watch Video for Lead Single, "Surviving You"

Composer, vocalist, guitarist and poet Hannah Frances announces her new album, Nested in Tangles, out October 10th via Fire Talk, presents lead single/video “Surviving You,” and plots a headlining tour. With this distinctive body of work, Hannah Frances solidifies herself as an artist of insurgent emotional clarity, committed to personal truth and self-actualization. Nested in Tangles spans the realms of progressive rock, avant-folk, and jazz, but remains anchored throughout with Frances’ signature vocal leaps and percussive, polyrhythmic fingerpicking.

Frances wrote Nested in Tangles throughout 2023 and 2024, almost immediately following the completion of her critically acclaimed album, Keeper of the Shepherd. On Nested in Tangles, Frances narrates complex stories of familial estrangement, emotional trauma and a deepening of her own sense of trust, through a collection of intricate, dizzying and large-scale compositions. Alongside longtime collaborator Kevin Copeland, Frances brought on Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear to produce and arrange a pair of tracks, and enlisted friends to contribute horn, wind, and string arrangements. Born from an expanded range of musical influences including contemporary avant-garde classical composers and 70s progressive rock, Nested in Tangles surprises in its dynamics and compositional detours.

Lead single “Surviving You” is presented alongside an incredible video filmed by Derrick Alexander, edited and colored by Vanessa Castro, and directed by Frances herself. Shot in Frances’ former homebase of Chicago, the “Surviving You” video features longtime friend and collaborator Sarah Clausen, who also contributes saxophone and bass clarinet on the track. “‘Survivng You’ is a reflection on the ways generational trauma can repeat itself when unexamined, and the ways we learn to protect ourselves through necessity,” Frances says.

“It's a personal account of receiving harm from people who have projected their own pain onto me, who refuse to see themselves or take accountability for the impact of their actions. I was reckoning with my rage, and recognizing how much I've lived in survival mode for the majority of my life. This is for anyone who grew up in a turbulent and harmful home and is learning to affirm their lived experience.”

Watch Hannah Frances’ “Surviving You” Video

Hannah Frances - Surviving You (Official Music Video)

Bookended by instrumental pieces woven through spoken word poetry, Nested in Tangles is a raucous and jubilant circus strewn with billowing orchestral arrangements. Each track investigates the nuance of contradiction and multiplicity, volleying between intimacy and the expansive maximalism of Frances’ inner world. Deeply inspired by her continued experimentation with open guitar tunings and the healing work Frances sought amidst a tumultuous resurfacing of familial trauma, Nested in Tangles probes the edges of memory, entanglement, and estrangement.

Nested in Tangles incorporates layers of natural imagery — blue herons, birds in murmuration, sandcastles, a body of water’s lapping edge — alongside cuttingly lucid interrogations of Frances’ own grisly histories of familial manipulation and abuse. Through each track, ideas of both the nest and the parent are reimagined and reshaped. Frances bravely reveals the ways she’s learned to re-parent herself and care for her inner child in an attempt to emancipate herself from her past of entanglement. “I am fragmentary and whole at once,” she declares on the opening title track. “I am tender heart and jagged hand // I am a bird, and a stone, and a fragile bone, and I am here to listen, and love the child I have always been.”

With Nested in Tangles, Frances disentangles herself from the vicious cycle of generational trauma and maladaptive patterns. She chooses light, and in her choosing, demonstrates a new way of unburdening, a way to transfigure pain and fear into a new embodied wholeness. On the final track, amidst a flurry of strings, gentle guitar and a sound sample of children playing, Frances’ somber resolve is made clear: “And I will keep reaching”, she promises. “To live here, in the heavy, in the light // I am the heart I've needed, and I feel it all.”

Hannah Frances will embark on a headlining US tour in support of Nested in Tangles this fall, including stops in Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Washington DC and more to be announced. Frances’ headlining run follows her EU/UK tour which begins this Sunday at Green Man Festival, and includes headlining shows in London, Manchester, Glasgow and more. Afterwards, Frances will join Florist for performances in Berlin, Paris and beyond. Later this winter, Frances will support Foxwarren in Los Angeles, San Francisco and other west coast dates. A full list of performances are below, and tickets are on sale now.

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Nested in Tangles Tracklist

1. Nested in Tangles

2. Life’s Work

3. Falling From and Further

4. Beholden To

5. Steady in the Hand

6. A Body, A Map

7. Surviving You

8. The Space Between (feat. Daniel Rossen)

9. Heavy Light

Hannah Frances Tour Dates (Headlining Dates in Bold)

• Sun. Aug. 17 - Crickhowell, UK @ Green Man Festival
• Tue. Aug. 19 - London, UK @ The Lexington
• Thu. Aug. 21 - Ipswich, UK @ The Smokehouse
• Fri. Aug. 22 - Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
• Sat. Aug. 23 - Manchester, UK @ The Castle Hotel
• Sun. Aug. 24 - Glasgow, UK @ The Hug and Pint
• Tue. Aug. 26 - Newcastle, UK @ Cluny 2
• Fri. Aug. 29 - Dublin, IR @ Bello Bar
• Sun. Aug. 31 - Berlin, DE @ Kantine am Berghain *
• Mon. Sep. 1 - Hamburg, DE @ Aalhaus *
• Tue. Sep. 2 - The Hague, NL @ PAARD *
• Wed. Sep. 3 - Gronningen, NL @ Vera *
• Thu. Sep. 4 - Breda, NL @ Mezz *
• Fri. Sep. 5 - Brussels, BE @ Botanique *
• Sun. Sep. 7 - Arraste-Mondragon, ES @ JAME (Oreixe Akustikoa)
• Mon. Sep. 8 - Madrid, ES @ Sala Maravillas *
• Tue. Sep. 9 - Barcelona, ES @ Sala Razzmatazz *
• Thu. Sep. 11 - Milan, IT @ Arci Bellezza *
• Sat. Sep. 13 - Dresden, DE @ The Sound of Bronkow
• Sun. Sep. 14 - Vienna, AT @ Chelsea *
• Mon. Sep. 15 - Munich, DE @ Bellevue *
• Tue. Sep. 16 - St. Gallen, CH @ Palace *
• Wed. Sep. 17 - Fribourg, CH @ Fri-son *
• Thu. Sep. 18 - Paris, FR @ Le Trabendo *
• Fri. Sep. 19 - Tourcoing, FR @ Le Grand Mix *
• Fri. October 17 - Chicago, IL @ Constellation
• Fri. Oct. 31 - Guimarães, PT @ Mucho Flow
• Wed. Nov. 5 - Washington, DC @ Songbyrd
• Thu. Nov. 6 - Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie
• Sun. Nov. 9 - Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground
• Tue. Nov. 11 - Montreal, CA @ L'Esco
• Wed. Nov. 12 - Toronto, CA @ Baby G
• Fri. Nov. 14 - Brooklyn, NY @ National Sawdust
• Mon. Dec. 1 - Calgary, AB @ Palace Theatre
• Thu. Dec. 4 - Vancouver, BC @ The Vogue
• Fri. Dec. 5 - Seattle, WA @ Neumos
• Tue. Dec. 9 - San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
• Thu. Dec. 11 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Bellwether

Hannah Frances Ensemble

* w/ Florist

w/ Foxwarren