Welcome to the Pitchfork Review. I'm Pooja Patel, the editor of Pitchfork. This week, we're doing something a little bit different. I recently had the chance to talk with the musician Lianne LaHavis for Pitchfork's live stream series called Listening Club. And we're going to be sharing that interview with you today.

Leanne's latest self-titled album was released a few weeks ago in July.

It's this beautiful genre-bending record about love, heartbreak, and independence.

Leanne talked with me from her home in London about self-producing an album for the first time,

the nostalgia of breakup songs,

and what it was like to get some powerful advice from Prince.

This album is so much about, like, very clearly,

about love and heartbreak.

The narrative of love and the arc about love and heartbreak, the narrative of love and like the

arc of love on this album follows kind of patterns in nature and the seasons. And I'm wondering

if you could talk a little bit about that. Yeah. I think because of how long it was taking to make,

I was physically seeing changes in all the

nature around me and for some reason being more aware of nature. I don't know. I've always

liked it, but I wasn't ever like a properly, you know, outdoorsy, but maybe I am.

That's what I discovered.

Maybe I really love the outdoors.

But yeah, I was just, I think it was also, instead of the arc of the relationship, per se,

it was more my own growth and my own adulthood and womanhood.

So I was seeing my self-change with nature and my relationship and the time passing

and all of these things just seem to connect.

Do you feel like you have any albums that are paired with seasons, like seasonal sense memory

albums? For example, your album is a early fall album, but it's doing very well in the summer

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