Anna B Savage Announces New Album, Shares New Single ‘Agnes’

Anna B Savage has announced a new album, You and i are Earth, which arrives January 24 via City Slang. The follow-up to 2022’s in|FLUX was produced by John ‘Spud’ Murphy. Today’s announcement comes with the release of a new single, ‘Agnes’, which features Irish musician Anna Mieke. Check it out and find the album artwork and tracklist below.

Discussing the new song, Savage explained:

This song is inspired by Irish folklore, therapy practice, and a tweet. In therapy we had been meditating and visualizing, a practice that is in turns frightening and deeply comforting. Concurrently, I was reading about Selkies and Faeries, and it was when I read this tweet that I felt the folklore melding with my own personal therapeutic experiences. That moment of potential relief followed by a deep terror, and the act of turning your clothes inside out to release your entrapment from the ‘stray sod’.

This song – or rather Agnes herself – is an embodiment of the fascination and fear, the joy and the reverence I felt in these lessons. At once benevolent and kind ‘you can come here any time’, and deeply frightening ‘she’s tucking me [under the ground]… leaving me over here’ I felt like I was trying to learn how to be content holding multiplicities all at once and being okay with it. I struggled to think of people who could be Agnes’s voice, and suddenly I realised Anna Mieke was perfect, I adore her music, and her vocals/lyrics are in turns delicate and ethereal, powerful and a little uncanny. I am so grateful to her for taking on this wild song and making Agnes come to life.

You & i are Earth includes contributions from Kate Ellis and Caimin Gilmore of Crash Ensemble, Cormac MacDiarmada of Lankum, and Mieke on vocals, strings, harmonium, bouzouki, taishōgoto, and clarinets. According to Savage, it serves as “a love letter to a man and to Ireland.”

She added, “When I was writing the first record, it felt difficult. I wanted to make sense of something I didn’t really understand. Then with the second record I had done some therapy, and was getting to grips with myself, but my old self was still pulling me back a bit, but with this one it was quite different.”

Check out our Artist Spotlight interview with Anna B Savage.

You and i are Earth Cover Artwork:

You and i are Earth Tracklist:

1. Talk To Me
2. Lighthouse
3. Donegal
4. Big & Wild
5. Mo Cheol Thú
6. Incertus
7. I Reach For You In My Sleep
8. Agnes [feat. Anna Mieke]
9. You & I Are Earth
10. The Rest Of Our Lives

Konstantinos Pappis
Konstantinos Pappis
Konstantinos Pappis is a writer, journalist, and music editor at Our Culture. His work has also appeared in Pitchfork, GIGsoup, and other publications. He currently lives in Athens, Greece.
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