Oakland-based songwriter and field recordist Kathryn Mohr has announced a new album, Carve. Her second full-length LP will arrive on April 17 on the Flenser. Mohr has also shared its lead single, “Property,” which you can listen to below.
“Property” took shape from an “amalgamation of dream images and visions” that Mohr had throughout last year. “It’s also inspired by an underground man made waterway I found that went on for miles under the city I live in,” she adds. “Walking through, climbing 50 feet up a ladder to look out the man hole, see where I am.”
Carve serves as the follow-up to last year’s Waiting Room, a standout album of 2025 and Mohr’s full-length debut after releasing two other records prior. Mohr wrote the 12 songs on Carve over the course of five years, and eventually retreated to the rural Mojave Desert to properly record them. The album was then mixed by Agriculture guitarist Richard Chowenhill. In a press release, Mohr describes Carve as an album about how memory exists outside the body, in the form of landscapes and locations, and how love can be experienced as a form of grief and intimacy.
Read more about Waiting Room in The Best Music of 2025 So Far.
Crave:
01 Bone Infection
02 Doorway
03 Angle of Repose
04 Commit
05 Property
06 I Do
07 Idiocy
08 Owner
09 Cells
10 Chromium 6
11 Trouble Me
12 Crow Eyes
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