Eartheater

Eartheater’s seventh album, Heavenly Body: If I’m the Bottle You’re the Message, is as personal as it is universal. Exploring the pregnant body as a vessel for something greater than itself, it’s an intimate look at what it means to carry another human, how that transforms your body and your life, and what it is to be a parent. It’s a record of birth plans and playlists, peeing in cups, and pregnancy sex. While it’s the singular experience of one woman, the versatile composer, singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, Alexandra Drewchin, they’re also feelings other people have experienced, in other ways, without having to be a parent—which adds to the collection’s power. Drewchin started on it a little over three months after she gave birth to her 10-month old daughter, Nova. “It’s very much born from the throws and blisses of becoming a mother,” she says. “Some music can wait to come out and it will make sense whenever it does. This music had to come out immediately.” When you move quickly, you have less time to second-guess yourself and the 11 resulting songs are some of Eartheater’s catchiest and most immediate. As complex as they are, they feel effortless.