ANOHNI: New single and album in July

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MY BACK WAS A BRIDGE FOR YOU TO CROSS will be released on July 7th. A first single has already been released.

ANOHNI is ending the seven-year album break this summer with MY BACK WAS A BRIDGE FOR YOU TO CROSS. ANOHNI and the Johnsons’ new work will be released on July 7th via Secretly Canadian. The first single “It Must Change” has been released to coincide with the news – accompanied by a video by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, which also features British activist Munroe Bergdorf.

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“There’s something magical about suddenly inserting words that you’ve been thinking about for a long time into a melody. A neural system awakens. It’s not personal and yet so personal. Things connect and come alive,” says ANOHNI in the press release for the new release. Soul producer and Amy Winehouse collaborator Jimmy Hogarth also worked on the project.

Since the album HOPELESSNESS (2016) ANOHNI has learned a lot about the power of their own music: “Dhat I can deliver a soundtrack that can empower people in their work, in their activism, in their dreams and decisions. I can sing of an awareness that makes others feel less alone, people for whom the open articulation of these frightening times is not a source of uneasiness but a source of identification and relief. I want my work to be useful, to help others go through these conversations that we must have now with dignity and resilience.”

The full tracklist looks like this:

  1. It must change
  2. go ahead
  3. Sliver of Ice
  4. Can’t
  5. scapegoat
  6. It’s My Fault
  7. rest
  8. There Wasn’t Enough
  9. Why Am I Alive Now?
  10. You Be Free

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