Following the release of her 2020 debut LP Unphased, Little Moon, the project (and childhood nickname) of Utah singer-songwriter Emma Hardyman, set out to write a romantic album about her newlywed husband, Nathan. Written after her own complicated departure from the Mormon Church, Dear Divine is Little Moon’s wide-eyed, intensely personal embrace of a whole new world. It is a vast, dense sonic tapestry of soaring Hardyman’s 4-octave voice, future-baroque arrangements, mimicking the grandiosity and delicate ebbs and flows of nature, and the radical love and self-care that Hardyman seeks wherever she goes.