London-based singer-songwriter Hannah White, whose 2020 album Hannah White and the Nordic Connections won rave reviews and a UK Americana Award nomination, is back with a stunning new example of her emotionally piercing song craft.

The single ‘Car Crash’ is the first taste of the much-anticipated About Time, the follow-up to a record hailed as “a timeless classic” by Folk & Tumble and “a masterpiece” by Fatea magazine. It’s a significant return in many ways, especially as it marks Hannah’s debut as a co-producer of her own work, alongside her guitarist husband, Keiron Marshall.

‘Car Crash’ typifies the searingly honest and autobiographical narrative style that White has made her own on a series of releases over recent years. The new single and album were recorded early in 2022 near White and Marshall’s home in Sutton, south London, where they also run the award-winning grassroots music venue The Sound Lounge.

Like the album to follow, ‘Car Crash’ is true Americana noir, dark but inviting, unflinching but compelling, evocative and utterly truthful. About Time is an elegant collection of songs with heart and edge penned by the artist herself, and it also marks her reunion, after the inevitable interruption of the last two years, with original Nordic Connections member Lars Hammersland, on lyrical piano and Hammond organ. Marshall’s distinctive guitar and baritone sound is complemented by another Norwegian collaborator, Svein Henning Berstad, on bass, and by Luca Wade on drums.

In May, Hannah White & Keiron Marshall will be touring the UK with AMA UK Award Winner (Instrumentalist of the Year) Michele Stodart from The Magic Numbers, on bass as well as featuring as their special guest to open the shows.

After almost two years apart, and following the cancellation of several tours, White remade that Nordic connection as her friends were finally able to travel to the UK, for recording sessions in a space offered to them by local friends. Committing these deeply-felt songs to album has been a long time coming, but entirely worth the wait, both for the artist and her ever-expanding audience.

” ‘Car Crash’ is a song about when I was homeless with James and I was arrested for shop-lifting food. I had James with me and as I was taken to the police station they instructed me to give them details of a person who could come and collect James but I had no-one to call. They thought I was refusing to be cooperative but I genuinely had no-one to call. My sister lived in Canada. My mum was in SE London and couldn’t leave her house because she was agoraphobic. There was no-one. I felt like if they’d known me they would be helping me more but I just went mute, it was too much to take in. Anyway it was horrible and something I have refused to think about too much until I wrote this song.”