Amy Annelle's new album is out
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Amy Annelle's new album is out
Artist:
Amy Annelle
Place:
Brussels
Date:
Thursday, 5. September 2024
Emerging from a long battle with chronic illness, Annelle returns to the forefront of her craft with her enthralling new album, The Toll, co-produced by Cooper McBean of folk/Americana powerhouse The Devil Makes Three. The visceral 12-track treasure was borne from the depths of a restive soul and captures a time of transience and potent relationships. Each entry explores elemental lyrical themes: the wonderment and fierceness of nature’s rapture, the multi-faceted sorrow and astonishment of love, the high price of following dreams, the peril of reaching the end of the road, and her own emerging queer identity.
Backed by some of Austin’s finest studio musicians, The Toll showcases Annelle’s deft musical language - one that transcends genre boundaries, and features lush instrumentation, stirring harmonies, and elegant arrangements. Recorded at Annelle’s no-frills home studio in Austin’s Montopolis neighborhood, mixed by revered producer and engineer Darryl Neudorf (Neko Case, The Weather Station), and mastered by legendary engineer Greg Calbi (Yoko Ono, Sleater-Kinney, Taylor Swift), The Toll is imbued with a lifetime of lived experience, offering intimate and raw narratives that are deep-seeded and rooted in authenticity, complex yet playful.
The Toll marks Annelle’s triumphant return to form; her music serves as a cartographic study of people and places, where cities and encounters are vividly portrayed in shades and shapes of bruises. Her songs culminate in a cathartic and unforgettable experience for all who listen
