Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Julia Anrather has a lot on her plate, spending time as an actress and a producer with a handful of projects going on at any given moment. Somehow though, she manages to inject a ton of creativity and inspiration into her music, which can be described as sensual and sensible pop. Anrather even found time to record a new EP, Quentin, which will be released on March 3rd. Today Glide Magazine is presenting an exclusive first listen of that EP.
Over the course of four songs, Anrather establishes herself as a creative force as she crafts thoughtful pop songs about love and heartbreak with a vocal delivery that is sexy and soulful. It’s no surprise that the indie songstress has drawn comparisons to artists like Lana Del Rey, Ingrid Michaelson, Regina Spektor, and Lianne La Havas. The album offers a delightful taste of what we can expect from this promising young talent in the future.
Anrather reflects on the making of the album:
“Before this EP a lot of my writing felt necessary, it felt therapeutic, I was heartbroken and needed to write my way out of it, but writing ‘QUENTIN’ was just fun. The songs on ‘QUENTIN’ are more performative, less personal, more about telling stories than about exorcising ghosts. Having some emotional distance from the material meant I was freer in the recording process than I was recording my singles. I was more interested in what my band and my producer were hearing in the tracks, what the songs sounded like to them, and I was happy to have seven different guitar tracks on a tune rather than, how I usually am, always wanting to pare things down, only give a voice to the instruments and parts that I feel convey the meaning of the song. I’m working on a full length right now which is more of a happy medium and I’m excited to find out what it’ll be like recording material that’s personal but not necessarily about heartbreak, where that will free me and my band up.”
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Julia Anrather releases Quentin on March 3rd. For more info visit juliaanrathermusic.com.
