Texan songwriter Jana Horn will release her self-titled third album on 16th January 2026 via No Quarter. Most of the ten songs on the new record were written during Horn’s first year of living in New York, where she moved after completing a creative writing MFA in Charlottesville. “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 pyjamas, at midday.”
Despite the songs taking shape in the city, Horn decamped to the desert to record them at Sonic Ranch in Texas with drummer Adam Jones and bassist Jade Guterman and Adelyn Strei, who provides flute and clarinet on a number of tracks. Horn finished the last vocal and synth arrangements at home in her Brooklyn apartment.
“There’s some inherent conflict, I think”, Horn says, “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.” You can pre-order “Jana Horn” here.
She has released a video for ‘Go on move your body’—the album’s opening track—directed by Travis Kent and filmed around New York City. ‘Go on, move your body’ is from her days in Austin, Texas, around the time that she self-released her debut record Optimism. On why she chose to include this song now, Horn says: “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.”
