(The MPs Download was released 20/1/12, the CD Version does not seem to be out in UK just yet, but hopefully will be soon....???)
Like many, I first heard several tracks here live in Anneke's barnstormer of an opening set for the UK leg of the WT tour late last year. So it was already clear this album was going to be a real good'un, and now it's out and here it fully lives up to that already high expectation ,exceeds it even, first track through to last.
Where "In My Room" was more upbeat that the more reflective/melancholy first solo album "Air", this third and latest all-new-tracks studio album continues in that same upbeat vein, but here the signature sound has evolved from semi-acoustic feel to a heavier -base, darker, soaringly rockier style , much more multi-layered and with some electronic sounds fed in for good measure. But please don't misread into that any hankering for a return to Gathering "trip-rock", this is very much Anneke's own original style , like all the very best albums you don't feel you have heard anything at all quite like it before! That may in part be the fruit of Anneke's working this time around with Portuguese musician and producer Daniel Cardoso.
It hardly needs adding One Thing is NOT Changing- Anneke's lyrics and vocals all come over as intensely real and wise as ever , hauntingly so on "Circles".