Anna Tivel - 'Animal Poem'
Anna Tivel has just shared the title track from her upcoming album 'Animal Poem' - which is due out on August 29th via Fluffy & Gravy.
Matching chilled folk guitars with quirky vocal lyricism - this will hit the ears for fans of the likes of Beabaddobee, Maggie Rodgers and more alike. Of the record, Tivel writes in her bio, "It’s hard to know how to hold a creative life in a time that feels fraught with venomous division, careening technological advance, and an ever widening chasm between the affluent and the dispossessed. What good are poems when affordable housing is scarce, the climate teeters on a dangerous edge, and war breaks out over misinformation spread by profit hungry algorithms? I think about being here. How brief it is. How incomplete our understanding. I think about history. All the worlds we’ve created and broken. Revolution and renaissance. Hope and humility. Everyone here is living a creative life – teachers and parents, kids and convenience store clerks. We’re all tasting this wild existence, finding ways to express how much it hurts and moves us. This work is my own small addition to that communal story. The water we swim in. The way our attention molds our truths. Humanity is unfolding as we describe it. We’ll never get it right, but the attempt is everything."
Of the title track, she offers simply, "This is a meditation on the stories we tell ourselves and each other. We map our understanding in ever changing narrative, both painful and profound, live inside the worlds we spin."
