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Au Revoire Simone’s Annie Hart announces solo album
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 6 June 2017
Au Revoir Simone’s Annie Hart has announced that she will release her debut solo album, ‘Impossible Accomplice’, on 14 Jul. The first single from the record, ‘Hard To Be Still’, is out now.
“I have never been able to write a normal love song in all my days with Au Revoir Simone or before, despite having been with the same person since I was 21”, she says of the single. “They always had some element of tragedy, betrayal, or melancholy lumped in no matter what I did to fight it. Then when we were on tour in Portland, I stayed at a friend’s place who had this awesome Roland drum pad and a beautiful Rickenbacker bass. I hooked those up to my computer to record and suddenly everything started materialising: the bouncing lo-fi drum beat and rudimentary bass line seemed so fun and perfect together”.
She continues: “By some strange miracle of being away from my husband and small child, I was finally able to properly say thank you to him for being supportive and doing his share as a parent, which a lot of women don’t get. I was also noticing some other men around at the time, who were hitting on me but were blatantly just after the obvious and weren’t really seeing me for me. And there was my husband, who knew all my neurotic tendencies and workaholic nature and never stopped loving me more surely or evenly for over ten years. I’m glad I finally have that one nice love song about him”.
Listen to ‘Hard To Be Still’ here:
