Anoushka Shankar – Love Letters
95,00 lei
Label: Mercury KX – 085 1615
Format: Vinyl, LP, Mini-Album, Limited Edition, Stereo
Country: USA & Europe
Released: 7 Feb 2020
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Psychedelic, Hindustani
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Experimental, ethereal, beautiful and heartbreaking, are all words that might be associated with this EP. Anousha’s sitar playing carries the listener through a story where she reinvents herself and becomes brand new. This open and honest album heavily focuses on the lack of identity after a love affair has dwindled. She sings, ‘Am I still loveable if you stop loving me?’ In which she feels as though she is no one without the love of a partner. That same someone she sings about who has left her for someone else. ‘I know she’s younger than me. Do you call her bright eyes too?’
But the album holds more than just sadness. Anoushka has used her music as a catharsis for her pain and while it draws emotion and heartache to the listener, you can hear the strength within her lyrics, her music, and her voice. Anoushka is healing as the album progresses. Lyrics dipped in sadness; she mourns the loss of her past life with her lover and embraces the pain to find hope again. In one song she starts off singing ‘There’s no space for me, there’s just space for you’, but by the time the song has finished she’s changed her lyrics to ‘Now there’s space for me, no more space for you’. Possibly the line that packs the biggest punch throughout the album, the idea that you are allowed to take up space. Especially in a relationship, but most importantly, as a human being. Demand to take up space and be seen, or in Anoushka’s case, be heard.
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