Anna Tivel

On Animal Poem, Anna Tivel’s latest album, she asks, “In the face of endless avarice and cruelty, how do we talk about the realness of love? How do we talk about destiny from the balcony of a nation in decline? How does our attention shape the way we touch the natural world?” It’s a masterclass in subtlety and emotional depth that doesn’t demand your attention but instead earns it.

Anna Tivel has announced her seventh studio album, Animal Poem. This highly anticipated collection of original material was recorded live with friends and co-producer Sam Weber; the 10-track set was made “in conversation: everyone together in the room, listening and responding in real time…” Watch the video for the title track, “A meditation on the stories we tell ourselves and each other.”

The rhythms of Anna Tivel’s ‘Living Thing’ ride waves of anxiety, resilience and hope, washing up on a shore that ultimately looks out to the light on the horizon rather than the darkness behind.

Anna Tivel’s stripped-back Outsiders (Live in a Living Room) accentuates the focus on the lyrics and illuminates the folksy nature of her music and the emotional power of her voice at its most intimate. It’s the sound of an artist at the peak of her powers.

Anna Tivel shares her new single “American Novella” – her expressive vocals are blissful as ever as she unravels her beautiful, almost prose-like verses, which once more highlight how bewitching and poetic a songwriter she truly is.

Despite the flawed and honest characters of Anna Tivel’s songs, with their troubling emotions and struggles with mental health, Outsiders is low-key and quietly optimistic. Masterfully crafted and performed, it is her finest work yet.

Watch the accompanying video to ‘Black Umbrella’, the second album single from Anna Tivel and a song about all the ways we fail to really see each other and the systems in place that so often serve only a lucky few.

Our Song of the Day comes from Anna Tivel with “Outsiders”, the title track of her new album, out on August 19 via Mama Bird Recording Co – A breathtakingly beautiful song and video inspired by the 69 moon landing.

Anna Tivel has signed to hometown label Mama Bird Recording Co. and shared a new song called “Astrovan”. She performs the song in the first of the label’s new series, The Schoolhouse Sessions, shot at their new headquarters outside Portland. 

With Blue World, Anna Tivel has crafted far more than simply some reimagined versions of her songs, this is a world with its own beauty and captivating intimacy.

Listen to ‘Two Dark Horses’, the deeply poetic new single from Anna Tivel which will feature on her forthcoming new album Blue World, to be released next month.

A consummate songwriter, Tivel’s attention to detail, both physical and emotional, draws you into the worlds her songs describe and inhabit, sometimes leaving you in tears, sometimes filled with radiance. Seek your answers within.