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Second solo album from Au Revoir Simone's Annie Hart, FFO Mitski, Broadcast, Carla dal Forno, Caroline Polachek



ANNIE HART


Shares environmental-inspired single, "Longing To Care Less"
Premiering via Oxfam

Taken from forthcoming solo album, A Softer Offering
due 13th December




Photo Credit: Sebastian Kim [Larger Image]

"sumptuous synth-pop" - Vogue

"her glossy DIY pop has an infectious charm and dazzling hooks" - The Line of Best Fit
 

A Softer Offering, Annie Hart’s latest solo record, is an elegant and gentle selection of songs that make magic from sparse and powerful ingredients. Noted for her film composition work and being a third of indie synthesizer pioneers, Au Revoir Simone, Annie again takes the reins on her own to create a spare, sophisticated album, celebrating the quiet moments in life that listeners will come back to time and again.
 
The songs create a world of effortless beauty that evokes being outdoors in warm rain or that particular nostalgia that comes from staring out a train window on an overcast day. The ingredients are nothing new for Hart: she deftly combines her powerfully emotive voice with electric piano and synthesizer and drum samples, but on this record, she spaces out the loveliness of the songs and sounds to guide the listener into a meditative soundscape. Her voice moves from intimate and hushed to a plaintive cry, at times intentionally disturbing, but always expertly balanced by gorgeous keyboard and guitar.

Today, Hart shares new single "Longing To Care Less" via Oxfam, saying of it:

"I was afraid to make this video because I didn’t want to trivialize the enormous systematic shifts in legislation and government action we need in order to tackle climate change. We need people to make the government make change. We need to realize excess consumption doesn't make us happy and we aren't entitled to recklessly use the resources of the future. But I don’t believe we can ever make those shifts without altering our mass culture. And the way to change culture is to shift people’s everyday focus. I don't know how to make a huge shift in society, but making a video to add to the fabric of the conversation is one tiny way to get people's attention off whatever people are doing on YouTube and onto actually helping the environment. I am trying to inspire people who care to make that next step and contact their elected officials and consume less. I know nothing will happen unless we all try.  This is my try."
 

Annie Hart - Longing To Care Less
https://youtu.be/ROSa2zo3DC0




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Watch previous video for "Wilderness Hill"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQLwH2BFR_g

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"Don't Breathe For Me"
https://youtu.be/gyhQg6BlC28

 


 
Hart says of A Softer Offering, “I wanted to give listeners that chance to breathe, to relax.  A soundtrack for painting or lying in the grass. I thought a lot about what music I play for myself when I want to make a moment feel complete. There’s just something different when you play soft music during these ordinary spaces in life, and I wanted to make a soundtrack for that. Sounds that undulate in minimal movement, that you can pay very close attention to, or leave space around if you need to have your own thoughts.  I hope this record helps stretch those unfortunately rare times in our lives when we have moments to be peaceful.” 
 
With vocals contributed by Madeline Kenney, and mixed in parts by Jorge Elbrect (Sky Ferreira, Japanese Breakfast, Ariel Pink) and Justin Pizzoferrato (Sebadoh, Pixies, J Mascis) and mastered by April Golden (Sharon Jones, Antibalas) A Softer Offering is sure to give you a soundtrack for winter that you will revisit over and over.

Known for her electric live concerts, she will be playing an intentionally intimate album release show at Union Pool in New York on December 13th (tickets). The evocative and unique cover art of her album also features a detail from New York City’s notable cutting-edge painter, Jenna Gribbon.


Preorder the album here: https://anniehart.bandcamp.com/album/a-softer-offering
 



About Annie Hart:
 

Annie Hart is a New York City-based composer, songwriter, and performer.  She made her name with David Lynch favorites and Twin Peaks alums, synth trio Au Revoir Simone, and has since branched into a swift-moving solo career.  
 
After the critically-acclaimed release of her first solo album, Impossible Accomplice, Hart embarked on several world tours and opened for the likes of Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor, Torres, Slow Club, Porches, Girl Ray, and more. The minimal album explored the fringes of new wave, pop, and drone-core, and has been called "sumptuous synth-pop" by Vogue. 
 
Her reputation developed from the record as a unique master of composition on analog synthesizers and led her to compose the score for two feature films coming to wide release in 2020: Olympic Dreams, starring Nick Kroll and Alexi Pappas, and Banana Split, featuring Dylan Sprouse, Hannah Marks, and Liana Liberto.
 
Annie continues to break boundaries by composing music for patient listeners in her own distinctive self-taught style. Her new album, A Softer Offering, explores deep emotional content with a paradoxically lush spareness in sound that is the perfect winter warmer.
 


 

A Softer Offering Tracklist:

 1. Wilderness Hill
2. Longing To Care Less
3. Wandering Free
4. Don’t Breathe For Me
5. Stillness
6. Clean Floors
7. Phoenicia No Coffee
8. Embrace The New Age
9. The Paper Pull
 

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