050: Anna Tivel - Gold Web
I've been really into this gem of a record from Anna Tivel since its release at the end of May. It's mostly bright and breezy folk music - see the glowing 'Disposable Camera', with its compelling melodies and wonderful map-of-life lyrics:
before you come into the world, you should know
there are things that will hurt and things that won’t
like scraping your knees on the asphalt
and the freedom right before you fell
nobody tells it like it is
they say isn’t it lovely, and buck up kid
but you learn how to breathe just by doing it
how to dream until you believe yourself
For all of its window-down, rolling road blustery pleasure, however, it's the album's closing track that I haven't been able to shake. Stripped-back and unadorned, like Tivel is sitting there in the room with you, the simple track is wrapped up in ambient sound, the hiss of the world held in place, the rumble of thunder and falling rain, the call of birds.
While it feels distinctly inspired by the gritted enunciation of Adrianne Lenker, you can't write songs this alluring without digging at something deep down inside yourself. So find a quiet corner and step into Tivel's world, keeping one eye fixed to the storm passing by overhead.
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