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Artist......: Anna Burch
Album.......: Quit the Curse
Label.......: Polyvinyl Record Co.
Genre.......: Indie
Catnr.......: PRC-346
Source......: CD
Rip.date....: 2018-02-06
Str.date....: 2018-02-02
Quality.....: 891 kbps avg / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
Url.........: http://annaburchmusic.com
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1. 2 Cool 2 Care 3:49
2. Tea-Soaked Letter 3:40
3. Asking 4 a Friend 3:53
4. Quit the Curse 2:53
5. Belle Isle 3:37
6. In Your Dreams 3:28
7. What I Want 4:21
8. Yeah You Know 2:57
9. With You Every Day 4:16
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,: Though the deceptively complex pop of Quit the Curse marks the :,
: debut of Anna Burch, itÆs anything but the green first steps of :
:' a fledgling new artist. The Detroit singer/songwriter has been ':
,: visible for the better part of her years-long career singing in :,
: Frontier Ruckus, or more recently co-fronting Failed Flowers, :
:' but somewhere along the way a vibrant collection of solo ':
,: material slowly began taking form. :,
: :
:' Growing up in Michigan, BurchÆs fixation with music ':
,: transitioned from a childhood of Disney and Carole King :,
: sing-alongs to more typically angsty teenage years spent :
:' covering Bright Eyes and Fiona Apple at open mic nights. By 18 ':
,: she was deep into the lifestyle of the touring musician, :,
: juggling all the regular trials and changes of young life while :
:' on a schedule that would have her gone for months on end. ':
,: :,
: After a few whirlwind years of this, exhausted and feeling a :
:' little lost, she stepped away from music completely to attend ':
,: grad school in Chicago. This respite lasted until 2014 when she :,
: moved to Detroit and found herself starting work in earnest on :
:' solo songs sheÆd been making casual demos of for a year or so. ':
,: Friends had been encouraging her to dive into solo music, and :,
: one particularly enthusiastic friend, Chicago musician Paul :
:' Cherry, went so far as to assemble a band around scrappy phone ':
,: demos to push for a fully realized album. :,
: :
:' ôWriting songs that I actually liked for the first time gave me ':
,: a feeling of accomplishment," Burch said, "Like, I can do this :,
: too! But working with other musicians and hearing the songs go :
:' from sad singer/songwriter tunes to arranged pop songs gave me ':
,: this giddy confidence that I'd never felt before.ö :,
: :
:' The process was drawn out and various drafts and recordings ':
,: came and went as the months passed. By now Burch was playing low :,
: key shows and d.i.y. tours solo and had released some early :
:' versions of a few songs on a split with fellow Detroit musician ':
,: Stef Chura. Even at a slow, meticulous pace, with every step the :,
: album took closer to completion, it felt more serious and more :
:' real. After a more than a year of piecemeal recording sessions, ':
,: Burch was introduced to engineer Collin Dupuis (Lana Del Rey, :,
: Angel Olsen) who helped push things energetically home, mixing :
:' the already bright songs into a state of brilliant clarity. ':
,: :,
: The nine songs that comprise Quit the Curse come on sugary and :
:' upbeat, but their darker lyrical themes and serpentine song ':
,: structures are tucked neatly into what seem at first just like :,
: uncommonly catchy tunes. BurchÆs crystal clear vocal harmonies :
:' and gracefully crafted songs feel so warm and friendly that ':
,: itÆs easy to miss the lyrics about destructive relationships, :,
: daddy issues and substance abuse that cling like spiderwebs to :
:' the hooky melodies. The maddeningly absent lover being sung to ':
,: in ô2 Cool 2 Careö, the crowded exhaustion of ôWith You Every :,
: Dayö or even the grim, paranoid tale of scoring drugs in ôAsking :
:' 4 A Friendö sometimes feel overshadowed by the shimmering ':
,: sonics that envelop them. :,
: :
:' ôTo me this album marks the end of an era of uncertainty. ':
,: Writing songs about my emotional struggles helped me to work :,
: through some negative patterns in my personal life, while giving :
:' me the sense of creative agency I'd been searching for.ö ':
,: :,
: Emerging from years spent as a supporting player, Quit the Curse :
:' stands as a liberation from feeling like BurchÆs own ':
,: songwriting voice was just out of reach -- an opportunity, :,
: finally, for the world at large to hear whatÆs been on her mind :
:' for quite a while. ':
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