Mar 19, 2026 By Caleb Campbell

Last week, Los Angeles-based indie singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Spencer Hoffman released his sophomore full-length album, Cherry Picker. The record一arriving four years following his 2022 debut, Apple Core, and his 2024 EP, Roses Fly一represents a moving and starkly personal turn in Hoffman’s songwriting. The album narrows his focus from universal angst to insular portraits of love blossoming and fading, sketched with a deft lyrical sensibility and layered indie folk songcraft in the vein of touchstones like Sufjan Stevens, Fleet Foxes, and Hiss Golden Messenger. More