Release Date: March 22, 2024
Features collaborations from Anaïs Mitchell, Sierra Hull, Noam Pikelny, Griffin Goldsmith, The Westerlies, The Knights, San Francisco Girls Chorus and more.
Aoife O’Donovan’s first self-produced LP is inspired by the passage of the 19th amendment and the evolving landscape of women’s rights in America over the past century. O’Donovan artfully draws on speeches and letters by suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt to write intricately filigreed new, original songs infused with modern perspective and her own experiences as a woman and mother. Amidst a lush, genre-blurring soundscape featuring brass, orchestra, girls’ choir, and O’Donovan’s own “stunning” (Rolling Stone) voice, All My Friends wrestles with questions of what has - and hasn’t - changed for American women in the 100 years since gaining the right to vote.
Aoife O’Donovan’s first self-produced LP is inspired by the passage of the 19th amendment and the evolving landscape of women’s rights in America over the past century. O’Donovan artfully draws on speeches and letters by suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt to write intricately filigreed new, original songs infused with modern perspective and her own experiences as a woman and mother. Amidst a lush, genre-blurring soundscape featuring brass, orchestra, girls’ choir, and O’Donovan’s own “stunning” (Rolling Stone) voice, All My Friends wrestles with questions of what has - and hasn’t - changed for American women in the 100 years since gaining the right to vote.
Tracklisting:
1. All My Friends
2. Crisis
3. War Measure
4. Someone to Follow
5. The Right Time
6. Daughters
7. America, Come
8. Over the Finish Line (feat. Anaïs Mitchell)
9. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll