USA - 2022
Singer-Songwriter, Contemporary Folk, Chamber Folk
Anaïs Mitchell is back with a self-titled album made of her memories and tribulations, building a bubble where she can rest and reflect. The folk singer wraps us with her delicate and assertive voice on gorgeous melodies (Backroads, On Your Way) that feel as reassuring as her lyrics. Her name becomes the synonym for a place of love and remembrance, a secret garden with no thick darkness, even when she talks about the loss of her friend Felix McTeigue. The main strength of her album is her immaculate ability to wipe away any kind of complaint, bitterness or moping. But it doesn’t make it naïve, it makes her album profoundly joyful. What a moment to spend alongside her playful voice swirling with no restraining boundaries.
And her light is filled with nuances. On Now You Know, Little Big Girl and Watershed, her daydreaming stream of consciousness becomes more attached to the complexities of her mind mechanisms, and the systemic obstacles awaiting women during their life. By acknowledging both her intimate and generic struggles, Anaïs Mitchell legitimates the use of that rejoicing bubble during the other tracks. She isn’t building herself a prison, she’s building a safe place in her mind where she can travel and look at her past with a kind eye. And to reach that place, to possess that amount of indulgence and perceptiveness is the result of a long long work. And now we can all experience it, lay back in the backseat of someone’s car and reflect calmly.
And her light is filled with nuances. On Now You Know, Little Big Girl and Watershed, her daydreaming stream of consciousness becomes more attached to the complexities of her mind mechanisms, and the systemic obstacles awaiting women during their life. By acknowledging both her intimate and generic struggles, Anaïs Mitchell legitimates the use of that rejoicing bubble during the other tracks. She isn’t building herself a prison, she’s building a safe place in her mind where she can travel and look at her past with a kind eye. And to reach that place, to possess that amount of indulgence and perceptiveness is the result of a long long work. And now we can all experience it, lay back in the backseat of someone’s car and reflect calmly.
About Little Big Girl :
Recognition. Building yourself through other people’s eyes is something that cannot be avoided. But the warm melodies on this song could ring like an anthem for a seventeen-year-old. This may be the darkest song of the album with Now You Know and it sounds like a blissful ballad reminding us that troubles don’t last always. Just like the other songs, it fills you up with aliveness.
« Hold on little big girl »
Recognition. Building yourself through other people’s eyes is something that cannot be avoided. But the warm melodies on this song could ring like an anthem for a seventeen-year-old. This may be the darkest song of the album with Now You Know and it sounds like a blissful ballad reminding us that troubles don’t last always. Just like the other songs, it fills you up with aliveness.
« Hold on little big girl »