Portland, Oregon-based artist Anna Tivel has announced her forthcoming sixth studio album, Living Thing, due out May 31, 2024 via Fluff & Gravy Records (Margo Cilker, Kassi Valazza, Jeffrey Martin). More vibrantly sculptural than her previous releases, Tivel wrote the 9-track set through the tumultuous eyes of 2020 and recorded it with longtime collaborator and friend Shane Leonard (Bon Iver, Field Report). Of the record, she offers, “I wrote feverishly in the strange chaos of that year, suddenly out of work and attempting to understand the shifting human fabric, the depth of desperation and the overwhelming tenacity of spirit. The resulting songs felt rhythmic and vital, with more melody and soaring chorus than I’ve explored in the past.”
Today, Tivel is sharing a music video for lead single “Disposable Camera,” (below) filmed and produced by Kale Chesney. Of the track, she offers, “A song for the everything of it all. For the wild science fiction of coming into the world. For the way it will break your heart. For the way it will make it race. Sometimes songs are slow and archeological, and sometimes they come busting out in one furious motion, just a potent feeling needing to come alive in language. I guess I wrote ‘disposable camera’ in this frame of mind, trying to get at the chaos and the meaning, the roulette wheel of places and situations to be born into, and the deep human urge to find beauty in the struggle.”
Living Thing Tracklist:
1) Silver Flame
2) Real Things
3) Bluebird
4) Kindness of a Liar
5) Desperation
6) Disposable Camera
7) Two Truths
8) Altogether Alone
9) Gold Web
Anna Tivel On Tour:
April 4 — Bluebird Theater — Denver, CO*
April 5 — Armory Event Center — Fort Collins, CO*
April 6 — The Commonwealth Room — South Salt Lake, UT*
April 7 — El Korah Shrine — Boise, ID*
*supporting Charlie Parr
