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 and birth another human. It’s a record of deep introspection, peeing in cups, and pregnancy sex. A mix of dance lullabies, post-wave bangers, prismatic anthems, and stadium-stretching art-pop, Heavenly Body offers a new chapter in Drewchin’s already deep discography. While it’s the singular experience of one woman, versatile composer, singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, Alexandra Drewchin, Heavenly Body explores the feelings other people have experienced, in other ways, without having to be a parent. Throughout her career, Drewchin’s never been afraid to explore new approaches: She’s collaborated with a variety of artists including FKA twigs (she contributed the top-line melody, guitar, and production to the lead single for the Grammy-winning album Eusexua), Alarm Will Sound, Sega Bodega, and shygirl. Here, for the first time, she worked on the album largely with only one co-producer, David Sitek. They started on it a little over three months after she gave birth to her now 10-month old daughter, Nova. “It’s very much born from the throws and blisses of becoming a mother,” she says. When you move quickly, you have less time to second-guess yourself and the 11 songs here are some of Eartheater’s catchiest and most immediate to date.
