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(2022) Anna Tivel - Outsiders [FLAC]
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Review: Anna Tivel is a writer first, and a remarkable one, at that. The fact should not diminish the considerable charm of her fluttery, vibrant voice or the seductiveness of her melodies. It sheds no scorn on her talent for arranging songs with bright, just-enough instrumentation that augments but never buries their essential shape. And yet, with an album like Outsiders, and particularly with stand-out track “Black Umbrella,” you really have to start with the words. They would stand out on paper, which even the best lyrics often do not. Moreover, they fit with casual grace to Tivel’s tune, so that her precise, poetic story gains resonance and emotional heft from the way the notes run – and the way the notes run creates no difficulties at all for the flow of words. “Black Umbrella” tells a knotty story of a kid caught up in a bank robbery, maybe involved as a lookout or maybe not, but certainly not responsible for the violence when the robbery goes wrong. The narrator is trying to help a teller who is bleeding to death when the police arrive and mistake him (or her?) for a criminal; in the confusion, they shoot him dead. The whole lyric is well worth reading, and you can do so at the United Songwriters for the People’s Sovereignty Bandcamp page, but for a taste, here’s the verse where it all goes wrong.
Gun, somebody cried, and you kicked your legs and broke the window In a chaos of confusion, raining glass like diamonds loosed and you were On your feet again and then a bullet danced right through you And the ground came up like some great flood and then you were not moving.
The “bullet danced right through you” and “the ground came up like some great flood” are particularly fine, active, idiosyncratic ways to describe a violent death, but the song is full of striking images. It would work reasonably well as the wireframe for a short story, but here, pared to ellipses, the song has a remarkable, subtle power. “Ruins” has the disc’s loveliest vocal line, with its trilling, melancholy refrain, an “and oh…” that cascades and curls with surpassing grace. The title track, “Outsiders” is a ghostly folk song about the moon landing, full of wonder and poetry. “Astrovan” is a ruminative waltz, framed by terse guitar chords and flowery piano flourishes and infused with regret. All work with a precision that doesn’t entirely dispel mystery, and all suggest obliquely rather than spelling things out. In any case, it should not be surprising that Tivel has a way with compression. Her last, 2019’s The Question, included songs about a gender transition and an immigrant child making a border crossing, both recounted in spare but evocative language, without cheap shots or soapboxing. Not many people are making folk songs as beautiful and rich as this. Don’t miss out on Outsiders. — dusted
Track List: 01 - Outsiders 02 - Black Umbrella 03 - Astrovan 04 - Heroes 05 - Two Dark Horses 06 - Royal Blue 07 - Ruins 08 - The Dial 09 - Invisible Man 10 - The Basement 11 - The Bell
Media Report: Genre: indie-folk Country: Portland, Oregon, USA Format: FLAC Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec Bit rate mode: Variable Channel(s): 2 channels Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz Bit depth: 16 bits Compression mode: Lossless Writing library: libFLAC 1.2.1 (UTC 2007-09-17)
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