h. pruz finds peace in the storm on Red Sky at Morning
Queens-based songwriter h. pruz (the project of Hannah Pruzinsky, they/them) returns with Red Sky at Morning, a tender and exploratory new LP released November 7 via Terrorbird.
Produced by: Felix Walworth and Told Slant
Produced by Felix Walworth of Florist and Told Slant, the record unfolds as a quiet reckoning — an excavation of love, fear, and identity filtered through spacious folk compositions and gentle, ambient textures. A natural evolution from their 2020 debut No Glory, the album captures Pruzinsky’s evolving sense of self and place, finding grace in the act of facing one’s own reflection.
Across its eleven tracks, Red Sky at Morning blends delicate fingerpicked guitar, muted percussion, and drifting synths into an atmospheric folk framework. The production leans on subtlety — saxophone swells, Wurlitzer hums, and plinking electronics emerge like passing thoughts. Walworth’s gentle touch complements Pruzinsky’s voice, which moves like breath itself: inhaling, exhaling, circling emotion without ever quite landing on certainty. The result is an album that feels both intimate and infinite, a vessel for stillness amid emotional turbulence.
Key moments crystallize this balance between vulnerability and resolve. On ‘Arrival,’ co-starring Emily Sprague of Florist (who also directed the video), Pruzinsky negotiates dependency and control, singing, “Promises start in the house / Board up the doors, paradise is found.” ‘Your Hands’ explores the tender ache of love’s endurance, while ‘Force’ distills a vivid childhood memory into sparse fingerpicking and ghostly piano, as Pruzinsky sings, “Cars crash in a circle on the big race day / It was a killing in your pocket / Started betting on decay.” Elsewhere, ‘Krista’ brims with unguarded longing, its “manically sloppy” piano part capturing the raw joy of surrender — an imperfection Pruzinsky embraces as a spiritual act.
Pruzinsky says of the title:
“I am drawn to the fact that so many people put their thoughts and beliefs into the sky, the mere color of it. That we can see things somewhere else, perhaps above, far beyond, that are to come to pass. To see a red sky above themselves, an outright warning of potential peril and collapse, and to still choose to go forward into something. In a lot of ways, that is what all of this is for myself with writing, with specifically writing these songs tied to my mental health.”
As its final notes fade — the closing track ‘Sailor’s Warning’ nodding back to the record’s title phrase — Red Sky at Morning leaves listeners in quiet reflection. Pruzinsky’s voice, at once fragile and fearless, charts a course toward acceptance and stillness, even as the skies change color above.
Red Sky at Morning by h. pruz is out now via Terrorbird. Stream the full album on all major platforms.
Standout Songs: ‘Come,’ ‘Force,’ and ‘Krista.’
Release Date: November 7, 2025
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We’ve covered h. pruz previously: ‘Krista.’
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