Portland, Oregon’s Anna Tivel has announced that she will release her anticipated new album, Outsiders, on August 19 via Mama Bird Recording Co.
With the announcement came the release of the folk-minded single “Outsiders.” The fragile blend of folk and country takes the page from classics from the 50s and 60s, blended with the modern sensibilities of modern titans like Sharon Van Etten, Big Thief, and Angel Olsen. Adorned with tight instrumentation and production around the passionate vocal work, “Outsiders” feels like a curtain lifted into an intimate set of emotions that Tivel is allowing us into.
About the song and the music video directed by Eric J. Loeffler & Vincent Bancheri, Tivel adds:
I wrote ‘Outsiders’ sitting on the floor in front of the TV between fragments of the Apollo 11 documentary. The news was feeling especially dark, full of pain and distorted truths, and watching all that beautiful footage from the ‘69 moon landing hit me right in the gut. For just that one moment in a time of great upheaval, it seemed like everyone paused to look up in wonder at something incredible that humankind was able to achieve for the very first time. When I listened back to the way the song was recorded, all raw and live to tape in a circle of good friends, it made me feel weightless and free and I wanted to capture that emotion in video form. I found a cheap old trampoline on craigslist and sewed these ridiculous fluttery red pants with visions of slow motion flying up high enough to look back from a great distance at the whole strugglesome and stunning thing. Music is so visceral and sensory to me, tastes and images and movement, but I’ve never had the camera know-how or means to bring that dreamworld into being.
Enjoy the “Outsiders” music video below.
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