Anya Anastasia - Burrow (Self Release) [Alt-Pop]
- The Slow Music Movement
- 10 minutes ago
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Hailing from the sun-baked Adelaide hills, Anya Anastasia is an intriguing artist. Refreshingly, in today's content-overloaded music game, she's a quality over quantity release girl, who's not afraid to cause a lyrical stir by extolling the virtues of our natural world/life-support system and questioning modern living.
A bit of musical rabble-rousing wouldn't be much use if the tunes weren't up to much though, and I'm happy to report she's a proper genre-bender as well. Aided by some crack music mates - take a bow Jamie Lena, Clara Gillan Grant and Satomi Ohnishi, she's shamelessly melting twisted folk, rock and pop sounds togehter, and not afraid to further fuse them with far-flung vibes from around the world. Now you don't hear that every day, and as a result, I liker her a lot.
Four years after her debut EP, the follow-up is on the way, having already been announced by the live show banger - "Two Halves", which lives up to its name by morphing from attitude-adjusted alt-pop into an art-rocking finale that should have at least a few of the crowd diving off the speakers.
I'm quickly learning to expect the unexpected though, and the new single "Burrow" is another genre-ambiguous gem that I'm filing under perky, pan-African powered alt-pop. There's a bit of psychedelic desert blues in the mix that becomes more apparent as the song progresses and the electric guitar gets pulled from the rack, but also a chirpy, cheery high-life(?) bass line from the off, that will get you throwing some weird shapes in the living room. Couple that with some sparse but propulsive percussion and then ice it with Anastasia on top vocal form; urging you to tune into nature's seasonal changes, bring forth your inner animist from the closet, and a chorus - perfectly timed for the northern hemisphere's spring awakening, urging you to leap into nature and leave your phone-sized 2D world view at home.
I'm on the Anya Anastasia bus. You should be too.
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