Ora Cogan – Honey
Vancouver-based artist Ora Cogan opens her new album Hard Hearted Woman with “Honey”, a slow-burning track built on warm strings and loose percussion. Her voice stays steady and smoky, addressing the “hard hearted woman” who anchors the record – someone with a “gunmetal smile” guarding their heart and style. Written in response to anti-trans legislation, the song radiates strength without losing its warm tone.
Hard Hearted Woman marks Cogan’s first release for Sacred Bones Records, following her 2023 album Formless and last year’s Bury Me EP. She wrote the songs after moving to Nanaimo, British Columbia, where she built her own studio amidst the remote landscapes. The album grew out of cold-water plunges, long river swims, late-night conversations about art and politics, and drives through rural Lillooet to visit her godmother.
Cogan recorded with David Parry from Loving at Dream Club in Victoria, in her Nanaimo studio, and remotely with producer Tom Deis. Her supporting band includes local musicians Finn Smith, Nancy Pittet, and Kristopher Bowering, who plays with Orville Peck. The result mixes haunted folk, psych-rock drift, and shadowy country into something intimate without being insular.
Hard Hearted Woman arrives March 13 via Sacred Bones. Cogan kicks off a spring tour with an album release show at Vancouver’s The Pearl on March 13, then heads to the UK and Ireland for dates through early April.
Tracklist:
- Honey
- The Smoke
- Division
- Bury Me
- Limits
- Love You Better
- River Rise
- Believe in the Devil
- Outgrowing
- Too Late
Tour Dates:
North America:
- March 13 – The Pearl, Vancouver, BC (Album Release Show)
Europe:
- March 19 – The Hope & Ruin, Brighton, UK
- March 20 – The Nest, Oxford, UK
- March 21 – Yes Pink Room, Manchester, UK
- March 22 – The Lubber Fiend, Newcastle, UK
- March 24 – Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh, UK
- March 25 – Room 2, Glasgow, UK
- March 27 – Roisin Dubh, Galway, IE
- March 28 – Whelans, Dublin, IE
- March 29 – Wavelength at Cyprus Avenue, Cork, IE
- April 1 – Sidney & Matilda, Sheffield, UK
- April 2 – Rough Trade, Bristol, UK
- April 3 – Dingwalls, London, UK
