Portland, Oregon-based artist Anna Tivel returns today with her sixth studio album, Living Thing, via Fluff & Gravy Records (Margo Cilker, Kassi Valazza, Jeffrey Martin), following the release of three well-received singles: “Disposable Camera,” “Bluebird,” and “Desperation.” More vibrantly sculptural than much of her previous work, Living Thing was written through the tumultuous eyes of 2020 and recorded with longtime collaborator and friend Shane Leonard (Bon Iver, Field Report). Of the record, Tivel offers, “I wrote feverishly in the strange chaos of that year, suddenly out of work and attempting to understand the shifting human fabric, the depth of desperation and the overwhelming tenacity of spirit. The resulting songs felt rhythmic and vital, with more melody and soaring chorus than I’ve explored in the past.”

Tivel recently signed with Crossover Touring (Bonny Light Horseman, The Tallest Man On Earth, Watchhouse) to bring the new songs on the road. See below for her newly announced album release tour, which includes dates with Blitzen Trapper and appearances at Calgary Folk Festival and Pickathon.

Living Thing follows Tivel’s widely acclaimed 2022 full-length, Outsiders, which received multiple Best of the Year nods from NPR Music, as well as Brooklyn Vegan, Aquarium Drunkard, Folk Alley, Post-Trash, The Boot, OPB, Folk Radio UK, and more. Album standout “Black Umbrella” was named one of NPR Music’s Best Songs of 2022, and Tivel performed the track during her Tiny Desk Concert last year, alongside an unreleased new song called “Fluorescence In the Future” and Outsiders’ “Heroes” and “Royal Blue.” Of the “quiet and riveting performance,” NPR’s Ann Powers praises, “As always, Tivel’s remarkable empathy elevates her folk-based, jazz-touched compositions from mere stories to secular prayers…Inside [the trio’s] swirling arrangements, Tivel’s portraits of pain and resilience become hypnotic, like dreams, like reality as we cope with it, always unfolding.”

Living Thing is Tivel’s sixth studio full-length of all new, original material. Last year, she shared an unadorned acoustic version of Outsiders as has become her habit for each new record. She previously released Blue World in 2021 — a reimagined collection of songs from previous albums recorded live in sparse and experimental trio format, just keys, percussion, and vocals. The project followed her widely acclaimed breakout The Question, which NPR Music called “One Of The Most Ambitious Folk Records Of 2019,” and its stripped-down 2020 acoustic companion album. Tivel began garnering attention throughout the U.S. and UK with 2017’s Small Believer, after establishing herself within the Pacific Northwest folk scene upon the release of 2016’s Heroes Waking Up and her 2014 debut, Before Machines.

SOURCE: Official Bio

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