Anna B Savage

Anna B Savage – in|FLUX (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 41:44 minutes | 470 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © City Slang

Anna B Savage has always asked many questions in her music, but on her new album “in|FLUX” the answers are no longer her goal. Vulnerability and curiosity have always been the key words to describe her work and on her second album she ruminates on the complexities and variables of being human, the pain or joy of love, loss and earthly connection and captures it all in a harrowing, inspiring and powerful way. The main difference between this and previous releases: She’s not afraid of what’s on the other side. She appreciates staying afloat in the open, uncertain gray area – even basking in it. Anna B Savage’s self-released debut EP caught the attention of Father John Misty and Jenny Hval, both of whom toured Europe with Savage. This was followed by the release of Savage’s debut album “A Common Turn”, which was released by City Slang in early 2021 and was highly praised. The album was included in many “Albums of the Year” lists, including Loud and Quiet and BBC Radio 6.
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Anna B Savage – A Common Turn (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:05 minutes | 843 MB | Genre: Alternative, Indie
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © City Slang

It is a mathematical law: every ten years, a singer from England named Anna releases a first album as a document of her times. In 2011, it was Anna Calvi. In 2021, it will be Anna B Savage. A real underground singer who first appeared in 2015 with a rather confidential début EP, which she followed up with a few concerts and then nothing. There are not many who have seen her in concert, back in the time when there were concerts. But everyone who has, remembers her. With her oddly tuned guitar, as if set to play a medieval blues number, and her elusive voice, as if several people were singing through her, Anna B Savage has bewitched a small audience who are drawn to music that’s different. A spiritual daughter of Cat Power, exuding a sense of strange unease, hidden behind her guitar, can become sensual, intense and desirable. A Common Turn is her first album, and it’s an incomparable potion, a musical unicorn. On a base of twisted folk, Anna builds far-fetched songs that travel through musical space-time. Depending on their own points of reference, the listener will hear in the vocals and melodies echoes of Beth Gibbons (Portishead), Antony & the Johnsons, Nico, Connie Converse, Dionne Warwick or operatic jazz singers of old. Not to mention the silence. But A Common Turn is not a record to be so easily defined, and nor is it simple. The arrangements range from choirs to rhythmic dance, to this time-worn guitar. Even when her music takes a turn for the grandiloquent, Anna B Savage remains fragile, uncertain, a balancing act, erratic, as if feeling her way through her own songs. One thinks of Snow White running through the forest amid grimacing trees or waiting for the Prince’s kiss in a poisoned sleep. And next to her, everyone else is a dwarf. – Stéphane Deschamps
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