“somewhere among Joanna Newsom, Jeff Buckley, and Fleet Foxes.” 

Pitchfork, Best New Music

“Hannah Frances is a stunning vocalist and songwriter making monumental freak folk music.”

— Ann Powers, NPR All Songs Considered

AWARDS
REVIEWS

PITCHFORK
BEST NEW ALBUM

Keeper of the Shepherd is an arrival, not only of a transfixing singer-songwriter who has made a stunning record but also of a person realizing they are more than the pain of their past.”

— Grayson Currin

PITCHFORK
BEST MUSIC OF 2024

RIYL: Alternate tunings; close harmonies; fantasy-league John Fahey x Joni Mitchell collabs; freight-train clatter; the changing seasons; old-growth forests; the Old Farmer’s Almanac; catharsis

PASTE MAGAZINE
BEST ALBUMS OF 2024

Hannah Frances’ fifth album just gets better and better with every single listen. The Chicagoan’s songwriting sticks to you like glue, and songs like “Bronwyn,” “Husk” and “Vacant Intimacies” are so pensive and full of solemn conviction that you’d be remiss to not engage with it at every waking moment.

BANDCAMP
BEST ALBUMS OF WINTER 2024

“Dedicated to the singer-songwriter’s late father, Keeper of the Shepherd sublimates her personal struggles into a collection of orchestral, multi-scaled folk songs with palpable animist undertones.”