Blue Reminder
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| Released | August 22, 2025 | |||
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| Genre | Indie folk[2] | |||
| Length | 46:17 | |||
| Label | Fat Possum | |||
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Blue Reminder is the sixth studio album by the American musician Hand Habits. It was released on August 22, 2025, via Fat Possum in LP, CD and digital formats.[3][4]
Preceded by Hand Habits' fifth record in 2022, Fun House + Blueprints, and co-produced with Joseph Lorge, the album features collaborators including Blake Mills and Tim Carr.[3][5] It was recorded in Los Angeles.[6] "Wheel of Change" was released as the first single on June 4, 2025, alongside a music video directed by Otium.[7]
Reception
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [4] |
| The Line of Best Fit | [2] |
| Paste | 8.0/10[8] |
| Pitchfork | 7.9/10[9] |
AllMusic assigned the album a rating of four stars and remarked, "what's more impressive is that Blue Reminder remains distinctly vulnerable and intimate, with songs about things like insecurity, regret, and calm devotion."[4]
Paste's Cassidy Sollazzo rated it 8.0 out of ten, describing it as "cohesive in a way that feels so unintentionally natural, the live recording process coating every song in warmth and comfort."[8]
The album received a 8/10 rating from the Line of Best Fit, which referred to it as "an album that vibrates with courage, tenderness, and a sheer insistence to feel," and "not just another indie-folk sojourn; it’s a declaration of presence."[2]
Marissa Lorusso of Pitchfork assigned the album a rating of 7.9, noting that "Duffy offers something of a mission statement for continuing to probe these paradoxes: 'Songs bloom,' they sing, 'from the wreckage.'," in addition to suggesting it is "rife with these dualities: how contentment can commingle with anxiety; how the past bears on the present; how new love can show up just when the world seems hopeless."[9]