Halifax’s Leanne Hoffman embraces fear and risk on the expansive The Text Collector LP

Halifax’s Leanne Hoffman embraces fear and risk on the expansive The Text Collector LP

The 31-year-old singer-songwriter headlines a show at the Marquee Ballroom on Oct. 5, with a guest performance from Aquakultre. Leanne Hoffman is not short on ambition. The Halifax singer-songwriter’s latest project, the dazzlingly pop-fuelled The Text Collector, is far from a conventional 15-song LP: Not only has Hoffman accompanied her album’s release with a poetry book—365 entries over the course of a single year—but the 31-year-old artist ha…