In 2017, Woodsist released Anna St. Louis‘s ‘First Songs’, a cassette release described as ‘Patsy Cline singing over John Fahey’. That album found a home in my ‘frequently played collection’ and was featured in a Folk Radio new mix series – KLOF No.1. The following year we were treated to her first full-length studio album If Only There Was a River; a stunning offering that had Pitchfork hailing it as “exquisitely rendered, a solemn display of restraint and loneliness.” We now have Anna St’ Louis’s second album offering, In The Air, dropping on June 9th, described as her most considered work yet.
In Justin Sullivan’s accompanying album press notes they write:
The intervening years since her last album found St. Louis in a small one-bedroom cabin in the middle of the woods of upstate New York with a new love and time to think of what she wanted to express with her music. For weeks on end, the only trips she took were to and from her job as the front desk clerk at a nearby hotel. The previous years she had spent on tour and performing constantly in the venues of Los Angeles felt like they had occurred in another lifetime.
“It really compelled me to surrender to the unknown,” she says.
Leading the way is her single ‘Phone‘, and an accompanying video Directed and Produced by Christopher Good and Anna St. Louis. Pre-Order here (also available on Bandcamp).