ANNOUNCES DEBUT ALBUM: I’VE FELT ALL THESE THINGS
OUT SEPTEMBER 10, 2021 VIA ALLPOINTS/HALF AWAKE
For release June 16, 2021 Anna Leone today announces details for her much-anticipated debut album. Titled I’ve Felt All These Things and co-produced in Los Angeles by Paul Butler (Michael Kiwanuka, Hurray For The Riff Raff), the album will be released on September 10, 2021 via AllPoints/Half Awake. The news arrives alongside the latest single to be lifted from the album, ‘Remember’, which follows Radio 1 and 6 Music-supported previous tracks ‘Still I Wait’, ‘Once’ and ‘Wondering’. ‘Remember’ is now streaming across all platforms from here, with a live session video now available from here.
Speaking about ‘Remember’ – across which Leone’s resonant vocal & lucent finger-picking is elevated by soaring strings and percussion – Anna notes; It deals with the promises we make to ourselves and others, and the way it can be a struggle to hold yourself accountable. It’s also about allowing yourself to be hopeful.
A winner at the 2020 Music Moves Talent Awards (alongside Flohio and girl in red), Stockholm native Leone emerged in 2018 with her widely applauded debut EP ‘Wandered Away’, drawing fans at 6Music including Lauren Laverne & Guy Garvey, alongside Ones To Watch tips from Spotify and YouTube, and over 18 million streams. Despite the acclaim, she knew she hadn’t explored everything she wanted to in her lyrics. “There were a lot of things going on in my life – these feelings of intense sadness,” she says. “I wanted to be as truthful as I could to them.”
Wanting to navigate her longstanding anxiety and come to terms with her sexuality through her music, Leone decamped to California to make the album with Butler, an encouraging presence throughout. Lifting the sadness and softness of Anna’s songs with analogue synthesisers, samples and spacious guitars, their reference points included Brian Eno’s ambient piano lines and Kate Bush’s ethereal soundscapes. Synthesisers helped take her elsewhere, including the contemporary OP-1 and the ARP 2600 from the 1970s, which Star Wars-obsessive Leone was delighted to discover was used for the voice of R2-D2 (“that was great!”).
At 26 – still shy, but determined to connect, Anna grew up the quietest of five sisters in a suburb of Stockholm. An introverted video game and sci-fi obsessive, Anna fast developed her own rich inner life, absorbed in the storytelling DC and Marvel, an escape she seeks comfort from now. Similarly,Leone bought her first guitar with no other intention beyond privately perfecting treasured releases by the likes of Bon Iver, Lana Del Rey and Laura Marling in her bedroom.
I’ve Felt All These Things explores how we close ourselves off to the world – it’s also an album about how we try and get beyond those inclinations, and how we make it through. Battling against the debilitating stage fright which is still present today, Leone has found a fast-growing international audience which continues to stretch far, far beyond the four walls of her teenage bedroom.
I’ve Felt All These Things is now available to pre-order from here:
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