Critically lauded songwriter Jana Horn, praised by The Guardian, MOJO, and NPR Music, has announced her third full-length album. The self-titled Jana Horn is set for release on January 16, 2026 via No Quarter.
Alongside the announcement, Horn has shared the album’s opening track, “Go on, move your body,” accompanied by a new video directed by Travis Kent. Filmed around New York City, the video’s setting is fitting, as most of the new album was written during Horn’s first year living there after completing her MFA.
Interestingly, the lead single is an older song from Horn’s days in Austin, around the time of her 2020 debut, Optimism. On its inclusion, Horn reflects:
“I can see how the conditions of my life may have caused it to resurface, but it wasn’t a conscious decision then. It just felt like it was time… to be reiterated.”
“Moving to New York after graduation had felt almost too right, like an arranged marriage. I was pretty unhappy for a while. My life was still in Virginia, where my friends were, in Texas, where my mother was learning to live again after years of being passed from one hospital to the next… I drifted through the city in pajamas, at midday.”
Despite the songs taking shape in the city, Horn decamped to the Texas desert to record at Sonic Ranch with her band—drummer Adam Jones and bassist Jade Guterman—and collaborator Adelyn Strei (flute, clarinet). Of the recording, Horn shared: “There’s some inherent conflict, I think, in any creation, but also apparently in our dynamic, and I wanted the recording to reflect that. Our broken-down, elemental approach. As much as the music, the silence, space.”
This new work follows Horn’s acclaimed 2023 release, The Window Is The Dream, which MOJO named an album of the year.
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