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I hadn’t even realised the new album was out - turns out it’s been out for months??
Anyway, this is excellent, very much of a piece with Young Man In America and The Brightness (which I like as much if not even more than Young Man) - spare and crystalline and sympathetically arranged, nothing getting in the way of Anais’s voice and the directness of her songwriting, a directness that might be corny if her portraits weren’t always so skilfully drawn, so tender, so knowing but generous - her persona in her songs always reminds me of the woman in Joni Mitchell’s “A Case Of You” (“she knew your life, she knew your devils and your deeds and she said, ‘go to him, stay with him if you can, but be prepared to bleed…’”).
I do wonder if she’ll ever embrace the ambition of Hadestown again, but it’s very difficult to resent the smaller and more intimate targets of the rest of her work when she hits them so skilfully.
― Tim F, Friday, 13 May 2022 12:41 (one year ago) link
cheers for the revive all. never heard her before but the glowing positivity got me curious. first listen to young man in america presently and this is damn good. instant love on "dyin' day." still in the middle of the album, but this is serious business so far.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Sunday, 22 May 2022 02:18 (one year ago) link
Yes, "Shepherd" is amazing. Absolutely gorgeous and impressive finger picking pattern.
xxxxp Great post, Tim F!
― Indexed, Monday, 23 May 2022 15:14 (one year ago) link
two weeks pass...
listening to the new album right now. it's darn good. excited for the new stuff, too. "california" sounds warm and wistful. grateful to have discovered her music.♥
― I'm ANTIFA and I vote. (Austin), Sunday, 12 June 2022 16:56 (one year ago) link
one month passes...
I was in NYC last week and finally got to see Hadestown on Broadway. Without a doubt the most enjoyable musical I've ever seen. Just an outrageously impressive evolution from the Hadestown album to what she produced for Broadway. At times was so absorbed with watching the musicians on stage, especially the trombone player, that the show (which is itself truly exceptional for its ability to do so much with so little) became secondary.
― Indexed, Monday, 8 August 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
ten months pass...
Saw Hadestown for the second time this weekend in Chicago. Highly recommend it if you have the chance to see it on this tour. The guy they have playing Hades is outrageously great.
― Indexed, Monday, 26 June 2023 17:43 (nine months ago) link