Heavenly Body: If I'm The Bottle You’re The Message

Heavenly Body: If I'm The Bottle You’re The Message

Eartheater’s avant-pop has often revolved around ideas of transformation—a butterfly hatching from a chrysalis, a diamond hardening through pressure, a phoenix being reborn through flames. But on her sixth album, the lavishly titled Heavenly Body: If I’m the Bottle You’re the Message, Alexandra Drewchin explores a new kind of metamorphosis: In 2025, the musician gave birth to her first child. Three months later, she started recording Heavenly Body, co-producing all but one track with TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek. (The exception is the closing track, “Nova,” which Drewchin produced alongside Nosaj Thing and Donnie Darko score producer Michael Andrews.) The resulting songs are awestruck, newly tender, and characteristically rapturous, recounting the experience of pregnancy and motherhood through alternately gritty and fantastical scenes: On “Glowing Guts,” she’s peeing in cups and adding Chief Keef to her birth playlist, while on “Crown Jewel,” billions of years of evolutionary history speed past in a time-lapse that ends with her daughter’s face.