| Anna Meredith – “one of the most innovative minds in modern British music” (Pitchfork) – today announces her eagerly anticipated second studio album, FIBS, out October 25th via Black Prince Fury. Alongside the announcement, she shares the lead single / video, “Paramour.” The one-take video and song forbids you from turning away. Its sweeps, jerks and wrong turns pin your ears to the speakers whilst heading for warp speed at a blistering 176 BPM, rounding out with an (utterly unexpected) tuba-led half-time rock-out. Arriving three and a half years on from the release of her debut studio album, Varmints, an album that juxtaposed hulking slabs of cross-rhythm and electronics with brittle gusts of delicate confession and irresistibly addictive pop melody, FIBS marks her first new music since the soundtrack of original compositions for the Bo Burnham directed film Eighth Grade. Meredith is a well-known classical composer, having been Composer in Residence with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and regularly commissioned by orchestras around the world. Additionally, she was the first female composer to be commissioned for both the First and the Last Night of the Proms and was recently named a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the Queen’s birthday honours list for services to music, making her Anna Meredith MBE. FIBS is 45 minutes of technicolour maximalism, almost perpetual rhythmic reinvention, and boasts a visceral richness and unparalleled accessibility. It is no Varmints Part 2. Instead, if anything, it’s Varmints 2.0, an overhauled and updated version of the composer’s soundworld, involving, in places, a literal retooling that has seen Meredith chuck out her old MIDI patches and combine her unique compositional voice with brand-new instruments, both acoustic and electronic, and a writing process that’s more intense than she’s ever known. Despite Meredith’s background and skills these tracks are no academic exercise, the world of FIBS is at both overwhelming and intimate, a journey of intense energy and joyful irreverence. FIBS, says Meredith, are “lies — but nice friendly lies, little stories and constructions and daydreams and narratives that you make for yourself or you tell yourself”. Entirely internally generated and perfectly balanced, they can be a source of comfort and excitement, intrigue and endless entertainment. The eleven fibs contained on Anna Meredith’s second record will do all that, and more. Watch the Video for “Paramour” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjmZLaymJU8 Pre-order FIBS – http://smarturl.it/FIBS Download hi-res jpegs and images of Anna Meredith – https://pitchperfectpr.com/anna-meredith/ FIBS Tracklist: 1. Sawbones 2. Inhale Exhale 3. Calion 4. Killjoy 5. Bump 6. moonmoons 7. Divining 8. Limpet 9. Ribbons 10. Paramour 11. Unfurl Anna Meredith Tour Dates: Sat. Aug. 3 – Hackney, UK @ Visions Festival Fri. Aug. 23 – Helsinki, FI @ Helsinki Festival Mon. Feb. 3 – Leeds, UK @ Belgrave Music Hall Tue. Feb. 4 – Manchester, UK @ Gorilla Wed. Feb. 5 – London, UK @ EartH Thu. Feb. 6 – Bristol, UK @ Trinity Sat. Feb. 8 – Glasgow, UK @ Art School Sun. Feb. 9 – Coventry, UK @ Arts Centre Mon. Feb. 10 – Brighton, UK @ Old Market Keep your mind open. [Don’t forget to subscribe before you go.] |