THE LINER NOTES

Aoife O’Donovan’s first self-produced LP, All My Friends, comes out March 22. It’s available in four vinyl variants — opaque violet, opaque yellow, opaque green, and opaque deep purple — all proudly pressed at Citizen Vinyl for Yep Roc.

The album is inspired by the passage of the 19th amendment and the evolving landscape of women’s rights in America over the past century, according to Yep Roc. “O’Donovan artfully draws on speeches and letters by suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt to write intricately filigreed new, original songs infused with modern perspective and her own experiences as a woman and mother. Amidst a lush, genre-blurring soundscape featuring brass, orchestra, girls’ choir, and O’Donovan’s own ‘stunning’ (Rolling Stone) voice, All My Friends wrestles with questions of what has — and hasn’t — changed for American women in the 100 years since gaining the right to vote.”