ANOHNI and the Johnsons – My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross PRE ORDER: 07\/07\/2023 My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross, ANOHNI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sixth studio album, expresses a world view by shape-shifting through a broad range of subject matter. Through a personal lens, ANOHNI addresses loss of loved ones, inequality, alienation, acceptance, cruelty, ecocide, devastation wrought by Abrahamic theologies, Future Feminism, and the possibility that we might yet transform our ways of thinking, our spiritual ideas, our societal structures, and our relationships with the rest of nature. On her first full album since 2016\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s HOPELESSNESS, she explains the creative process was painstaking, yet also inspired, joyful, and intimate, a renewal and a renaming of her response to the world as she sees it. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Some of these songs respond to global and environmental concerns first voiced in popular music over 50 years ago.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d ANOHNI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s approach since her last record has shifted from someone tasked with challenging global denial, to an artist seeking to support others on the front lines. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I learned with HOPELESSNESS that I can provide a soundtrack that might fortify people in their work, in their activism, in their dreaming and decision-making. I can sing of an awareness that makes others feel less alone, people for whom the frank articulation of these frightening times is not a source of discomfort but a cause for identification and relief. On \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It Must Change,\u00e2\u20ac\u009dANOHNI soulfully describes systems in collapse with a note of compassion for humanity: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The truth is I always thought you were beautiful in your own way \/\/ That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why this is so sad.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d ANOHNI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s voice is sensual and smoothed, selectively reaching to the edges of what it can contain. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not getting out of here \/\/ No one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s getting out of here \/\/ This is our world,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she murmurs. A portrait of legendary human rights activist Marsha P. Johnson taken by Alvin Baltrop features on the cover, reflecting a 25-year relationship with the memory of Johnson that ANOHNI has held space for in the presentation of her own work. Elsewhere, the album artwork states \u00e2\u20ac\u009dIT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S TIME TO FEEL WHAT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S REALLY HAPPENING\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. In some ways it feels as if she is reaching across her life\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s expression, and has found a moment of unique composure, wearing her long exploration of disarming intensity, with the maturity of a painter carefully choosing her colors. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I want the work to be useful, to help others move through these conversations we are now facing, to move with dignity and resilience through this bitter dawning.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d TRACKLIST: It Must Change Go Ahead Sliver Of Ice Can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Scapegoat It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s My Fault Rest There Wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Enough Why Am I Alive Now You Be Free<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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