NATALIE PRASS

By November of 2016, Natalie Prass was prepared to take her next step. After her ornately baroque 2015 self-titled debut took her around the world and to the upper reaches of numerous album-of-the-year lists, she was ready to go back into the studio with a new set of intensely personal songs, rife with heartbreak and loss. Recording sessions were scheduled for December, and her team at Spacebomb Studios in Richmond, Virginia—many of the same players who had contributed to her breakthrough—was in place. And then Donald Trump was elected President of the United States and