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Download the press kit (ZIP) ↓One-sheet PDF · album cover · eight photos · credit Cory Fontenot
Graham Hill is a songwriter and drummer based in New Orleans. His debut album, Taking In Stars, was written by Hill and produced with Donald “Donny” Markowitz at Mid City Sound Studio, and arrives January 2027.
Hill was the drummer for Beach House from 2008 to 2016, playing on Teen Dream and Depression Cherry, and has recorded with Papercuts, The Parish and his own project Roman Ruins. His father, Steve Hill, was the house bassist for NPR’s Mountain Stage; the vintage photograph of the two of them is the album’s cover.
Single 1
“This song is about letting go of what no longer serves. The images and story are autobiographical, taken from my high school days growing up in rural West Virginia. I was driving home from my girlfriend’s house late at night and totaled my car by hitting a deer. It was really traumatic, and caused me to rethink pretty much everything I was doing at that point in life, from my relationships, habits, and patterns of behavior that were keeping me from growing.”
Single 2
“I wrote this song after having a late night conversation with my son when he was having trouble falling asleep consistently as he was hitting his teenage years. The line “When I hear the smallest thing, and it snowballs into a scream” was pretty much verbatim how he described the issue to me. His particular experience was music playing repeatedly that he couldn’t stop.”
Single 3
“This song felt like it was beamed down to me from the heavens. It sounds corny, but that’s why I think I was able to write the words “Can you hear the angel’s song?” and not feel self-conscious about it.”
Credit: Cory Fontenot · Full-size TIFFs on request
