Angela Autumn – Believer
Appalachian-born and Nashville-based musician Angela Autumn announces her second album, Believer, out 9/11 on Gar Hole Records.
Nicknamed “The Rose of Appalachia,” a nod to the Allegheny roots and clawhammer banjo skills that helped her blossom into a critically-beloved solo artist, Autumn is fresh off of support tours with the likes of Bonny Light Horseman and Langhorne Slim, and after being awarded SXSW Developing Artist Grulke Prize, which in past years has gone to the likes of Leon Bridges, HAIM, Anderson .Paak and Future Islands. Now she prepares to release Believer – a musical melting pot of a record, blending the mountain music of Autumn’s past with the hybridized sounds — indie, psychedelia, pop, and gothic country — of her present. Written in the great outdoors (the woods of Tennessee, a rural treehouse in Asheville, at a friend’s warehouse in Chattanooga) and made with multi-instrumentalist and producer Baerd (Isaiah Beard), Believer showcases the other flowers in her garden, though, capturing Autumn in full bloom.
With the announcement of Believer, Angela Autumn shares the record’s lead single “Mountain Stream,” alongside a video featuring some of Angela and her band’s friends who identify as professional sex workers, pole dancers, and more.
“A lot of my friends are dancers, strippers, and body workers, and I like making music they can move their body to.” While the video celebrates the human body, the video pays tribute to Mother Nature with loping bass lines and glittering keyboards.
“The song ‘Mountain Stream’ is a slack-tuned anthem about escaping something,” Autumn explains. “It came to me one night when I was on a medicine journey and felt very otherworldly. I began singing words that did not feel like my own. But I think I was unearthing something deep inside of me. The mountain is a powerful image to me in my healing. It represents new heights and accomplishments, something monumental that is not easily perceived by the senses, but is felt internally. When making the video I wanted to show feminine power through dance. We collaborated with a few dancers and musicians and I made up some choreography. The song was entirely tracked live, minus the banjo and the loud primal hollers me and Isaiah added. I love that he had the faith in me to record it and it turned out to be the last song of six we tracked during our studio day. It had rained all day, so we really got to drop in and turn it up.”
Angela Autumn will be bringing the new songs of Believer on the road over the next few months, with a handful of U.S. festivals and a European/UK tour in support of Fink.
Tour Dates
Aug 1-3 – Canmore, AB – Canmore Folk Festival
Aug 13 – Nelsonville, OH – Creekside Stage Summer Series (free outdoor concert – trio)
Aug 29 – Bloomington, IN – Secretly 30th
Sep 13 – Evanston, IL – Evanston Folk Festival
Oct 3 – Leipzig, DE – UT Connewitz ^
Oct 4 – Leipzig, DE – UT Connewitz ^ *Roll Date*
Oct 5 – Prague, CZ – MeetFactory ^
Oct 7 – Krakow, PL – Hype Park ^
Oct 8 – Warsaw, PL – Progresja ^
Oct 9 – Poznan, PL – 2Progi ^
Oct 11 – Copenhagen, DK – Pumpehuset ^
Oct 12 – Hamburg, DE – Grosse Freiheit 36 ^
Oct 13 – Bremen, DE – Modernes ^
Oct 15 – Berlin, DE – Metropol ^
Oct 16 – Berlin, DE – Metropol ^ *Roll Date*
Oct 18 – Munich, DE – Muffathalle ^
Oct 19 – Innsbruck, AU – Treibhaus ^
Oct 20 – Vienna, AU – Arena ^
Oct 22 – Salzburg, AU – Rockhouse ^
Oct 23 – Budapest, HU – A38 Ship ^
Oct 24 – Zagreb, HR – Mocvara Club ^
Oct 25 – Zurich, CH – Kaufleuten ^
Oct 27 – Milan, IT – Magazzini Generali ^
Oct 28 – Rome, IT – Monk ^
Oct 29 – Bologna, IT – Locomotiv Club ^
Oct 31 – Lyon, FR – Transbordeur Club ^
Nov 1 – Frankfurt, DE – Zoom ^
Nov 2 – Esch-sur-Alzette, LU – Rockhal ^
Nov 4 – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso ^
Nov 5 – Den Haag, NL – Paard ^
Nov 6 – Nijmegen, NL – Doornroosje ^
Nov 8 – Zwolle, NL – Hedon ^
Nov 9 – Brussels, BE – Cirque Royal ^
Nov 10 – Paris, FR – Elysée Montmartre ^
Nov 12 – Manchester, UK – Academy 2 ^
Nov 13 – Bristol, UK – Electric ^
Nov 14 – London, UK – Electric Brixton ^
Nov 16 – Cologne, DE – Stadthalle ^
^ supporting Fink
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