Artist's albums
Snakelife
2023 · single
Stay Right Here
2023 · single
The Returner
2023 · single
4th Day Prayer [Feat. Mumu Fresh] (dim star remix)
2023 · single
You're Not Alone [Feat. Brandi Carlile]
2022 · single
All Of The Women [Feat. Sa-Roc] (dim star remix)
2022 · single
Persephone (Luck Mansion Sessions)
2022 · single
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
2021 · single
Prodigal Daughter
2021 · single
Outside Child
2021 · album
The Runner
2021 · single
Montreal
2021 · single
Persephone
2021 · single
Nightflyer
2021 · single
everything i wanted
2021 · single
By Your Side / Landslide
2021 · single
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Biography
On Outside Child, Russell’s heavily lauded 2021 debut solo effort, there was a reckoning with all that her past self-made it through. It was a daring, brave album. One where the speaker in the songs is both child and survivor, looking back on the child’s life. And, still, for all of Outside Child’s bravery, The Returner rises to an equal challenge of brave ambition. After not only presenting that history of a self to the world, but untangling it on her own, Russell made an album that brings her back to her present self. One that delights in her present self. An album that is abundant in scope, in color (sonic color and vocal color, but also, very plainly, in it’s stunning album cover,) and abundant in possibility for a variety of next turns. I am overjoyed by the act of communal singing, and even more so when it just so happens to be black folks in communion doing the singing, shouting, clapping, stomping, and whatever else moves them to make noise. The Returner, for all of its gifts, is an album that feels like an invitation, the way walking by a loud, boisterous church service where the praise and worship spills out into the sidewalk might seem like an invitation, even if you aren’t the churchgoing type, but you just don’t want to miss a good time, a loud time. This is an album of beautiful, holy noise. You can hear individual notes of laughter, you can hear each individual voice reaching for the next individual voice to link hands with and ascend. — Hanif Abdurraqib