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Feel London based Anna B Savage's potent vocal aesthetic and you will never forget it. On her new single, Dead Pursuits, her dark resonant vox are stoked with a myriad of emotional pokers resulting in a performance that feels operatic in it's narrative. Her voice stretches on the precipice, stands self aware in artful postures, turns in on itself and opens in a bloodletting way ("I tear myself limb from limb") that is both beautiful and goosebumps inducing. Savage wrote "Dead Pursuits" while grappling with Imposter Syndrome following her 2015 debut. Feeling inadequate while others around you applaud your talent and success can, indeed, be a painful reflection.
Dead Pursuits is paired with an inky, "ouroboric" stop-motion video by the artist Carolina Aguirre. Of the video Savage says,
“I’ve been a fan of Carolina’s style and output for many, many years. When she sent me the treatment for this video I cried. Her allegorical tale so perfectly expresses that feeling of a loss of confidence, and a questioning of identity. I feel an incredible amount of catharsis to have made something so beautiful and emotive from such a low point, and for that song to have prompted such an incredible, affecting visual companion.”
Dead Pursuits is from Savage's upcoming debut album (detail to be announced in the near future).
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London-based singer-songwriter Anna B Savage has released her second single via City Slang entitled “Dead Pursuits.” The lyrics’ intoxicating catharsis and inward-focused interrogation is heightened by the song’s ever-shifting time signature. It was written during a low point of self-esteem for Savage as she grappled with imposter syndrome in the period following the success of her 2015 debut EP, which was praised by Line of Best Fit as “a spacey, brittle piece of experimental agony” and by NPR for her "husky, confessional voice" and the "piercingly honest insight" of her lyrics, and quickly caught the attention of Father John Misty and later Jenny Hval, both of whom brought Savage out on tours.
“Dead Pursuits” is produced by William Doyle (FKA East India Youth) and is preceded by “Chelsea Hotel #3,” a sonic naked nod to Leonard Cohen, Janis Joplin and internalized shame. Both singles are taken from Savage's upcoming debut album, details of which will be announced later this year.
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