hemlocke springs announces debut LP, shares “heads, shoulders, knees and ankles”

Los Angeles-based artist hemlocke springs has announced her debut LP, the apple tree under the sea, due out February 13 via AWAL. She co-produced it with BURNS, and a press release describes it as “a fever dream of a concept album in which our hero, hemlocke springs, sets off on a journey of self-discovery—one that requires her to confront the chaos and repression of her past in order to claim the full, liberatory life she once didn’t even know was possible.” “I grew up very religiously—Christianity is very pertinent in Nigerian culture and the Black community—and I was also obedient to my elders,” she says. “This album starts with a character going through the desert who says, ‘I’m going to do your will.’ They could be saying it to God or a man, but then they come across the apple. It’s about me being in this bubble, and realizing that being in that bubble was tougher than I thought, and then finally getting out and exploring who I really am.”

She’s shared a new single, “heads, shoulders, knees and ankles,” a frenetically-paced art pop banger. Hear it below.