Singer-songwriter and producer Johanna Warren has announced her new album Frog in the Belly of a Snake will release on January 29 through Soul Selects. Her first new album in nearly five years, Frog in the Belly of a Snake is deliberate and meditative, rooted firmly in the healing power of the natural world, with performances that tap into a profound sense of liberation while finding comfort and release in the embrace of our transience.
Warren unveiled the first look at the album with the lead single ‘Automatic,’ a driving, angsty tune that finds the narrator exhausted by the endless cycle of striving, falling, trying again, and discovering that the only home she can ultimately count on is the one inside herself. The accompanying video features found footage filmed by a teenage Warren with a digital camcorder visualising excerpts from her dream journal.
“I’ve been on a bit of a mission these last few years to resuscitate within myself a spontaneous, uncomplicated way of making art for pleasure, like children do,” stated Warren, harkening back to her experimental EP The Night of the Wind based on a book she wrote when she was 3 years old. “My high school friend Leora and I recently reconnected out of the blue, and we got to reminiscing about all the weird art we used to make for fun/to stave off the doldrums of suburban adolescence. I remembered this one film in particular and just had an inkling it could make a good music video for ‘Automatic.’ When I put the song over the footage, the way the two things lined up was spooky.”
Frog in the Belly of a Snake:
- Web
- The Current
- Circular Logic
- Automatic
- Invocation
- A Power Greater
- Islamorada
- Wildcrafted
- Silver Light
- Voice of Reason
- Frog in the Belly of a Snake
- Bathwater Baby
- New Friend Blues
- Feeding Me Feeding You
