- 2025-07-09
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MUSIC
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Hannah Frances Returns With New Song “Falling From and Further”
Vermont-based singer-songwriter Hannah Frances returned with a new song “Falling From and Further” on July 8, 2025 via Fire Talk Records.
The song is her first music since the 2024 album “Keeper of the Shepherd”.
The track reckons with fear of abandonment and the subsequent push and pull of attachment in pursuit of security.
It was written and produced by Hannah Frances Pautler.
The accompanying music video was directed by Hannah Frances herself.
Hannah Frances said of the song, “I feel so elated and proud to share 'Falling From and Further.' It is a door into my next musical chapter, achieving the poignant vulnerability, grounded whimsy, and measured experimentalism that I strive for in my work. This song was a breakthrough for me in contending with the roots of my relational past, and holding space for the fragmented parts of me that are learning to trust through fear of abandonment.”- She continued, “I worked with my friends and collaborators Derrick Alexander as DP and Vanessa Castro as colorist. To represent my present awareness I had my band perform, and had my friend Av Grannan as the embodiment of my past. She and I did contact improvisation, working with and conveying the experiences of oscillation, mistrust, interdependence, isolation, security, holding, and releasing. It was very cathartic and joyful.”
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She shared on social media, “This video is my first experience directing and editing, and I'm so grateful to have worked with brilliant friends Derrick Alexander as DP and Vanessa Castro as colorist, as well as my beautiful bandmates Sarah Clausen, Meredith Nesbitt, Lily Finnegan and dear friend Av Grannan as my movement partner.”
She continued, “Falling From and Further reckons with fear of abandonment and the subsequent push and pull of attachment in pursuit of security-I wanted to visually encapsulate that juxtaposition of intimacy with this video as well as illuminate the retrospective nature of my writing. Av Grannan and I are the embodiment of my past in different contexts, and we did contact improvisation to convey the experiences of oscillation, mistrust, interdependence, isolation, security, holding, and releasing through movement.”
Photo by Grant Hindsley - source : Apple Music
