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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 and composes twelve tracks ranging between two and five minutes with a total runtime of approximately fifty-one minutes. [6] "Wheel of Change" was released as the first single on June 4, 2025, alongside a music video directed by Otium. [7]
| Review scores | |
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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]
PopMatters considered it "gorgeously produced and expertly arranged," before concluding that the album was "a work that should be counted among the year’s most successful offerings." [10]
All tracks are written by Meg Duffy; "Bluebird of Happiness" written with Leora Spring and Marina Allen.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "More Today" | 5:07 |
| 2. | "Wheel of Change" | 4:25 |
| 3. | "Nubble" | 4:08 |
| 4. | "Dead Rat" | 2:44 |
| 5. | "Jasmine Blossoms" | 3:41 |
| 6. | "Way It Goes" | 4:15 |
| 7. | "(Forgiveness)" | 2:19 |
| 8. | "Beauty 62" | 4:25 |
| 9. | "Bluebird of Happiness" | 3:18 |
| 10. | "Blue Reminder" | 3:45 |
| 11. | "Quiet Summer" | 5:29 |
| 12. | "Living Proof" | 2:41 |
| Total length: | 46:17 | |
Credits adapted from Bandcamp and Tidal. [1] [11]