Music Interview: Hannah Rose Platt

Letters Under Floorboards, the second album by Hannah Rose Platt, is a big departure for the UK country and Americana singer-songwriter. Musically, it’s a major shift from her largely acoustic 2015 debut, Portraits – this time around she’s gone electric, but also brought in strings, keys and pedal steel, for a much bigger sound, and, lyrically, some of the songs deal with dark and very personal themes, which sees a marked change in her approach to writing, which, until now, has centered on telling stories. However, Platt, who was born and raised in Liverpool, hasn’t completely abandoned the character-based songs …