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ANNA TIVEL "Disposable Camera" [Single] (Fluff and Gravy)
Add Date: 3/5/2024
Release Date: 2/27/2024
FCC: Clean
Formats: Non-Comm AAA, Folk, AMA, NACC Top 200
RIYL: Big Thief, Gillian Welch, Waxahatchee, Julia Jacklin

"Unmatched as an empath among her folk-leaning peers" — NPR Music

"One of the finest storytellers modern folk music has to offer, with lyrics so literary that it’s tempting to think of her as a poet with an exceptional gift for playing guitar and singing." — No Depression

"Tivel’s folk fingerpicking and soft, compelling voice are reminiscent of Big Thief’s Adrianne Lenker, and her songwriting—full of tragic figures and folks down on their luck—brings to mind Elliott Smith." — Pitchfork

FEBRUARY 27, 2024 — Portland, Oregon-based artist Anna Tivel has announced her forthcoming NUMBER studio album, Living Thing, due out May 31, 2024 via Fluff & Gravy Records (Margo Cilker, Kassi Valazza, Jeffrey Martin). A more pop-forward effort than her previous releases, Tivel wrote the 9-track set through the tumultuous eyes of 2020 and recorded it with longtime collaborator and friend Shane Leonard (Bon Iver, Field Report). Of the record, she 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."

Today, Tivel is sharing a music video for lead single "Disposable Camera," filmed and produced by Kale Chesney. Of the track, she offers, "A song for the everything of it all. For the wild science fiction of coming into the world. For the way it will break your heart. For the way it will make it race. Sometimes songs are slow and archeological, and sometimes they come busting out in one furious motion, just a feverish feeling needing to come alive in language. I guess I wrote ‘disposable camera’ in this frame of mind, trying to get at the chaos and the meaning, the roulette wheel of places and situations to be born into, and the deep human urge to find beauty in the struggle."

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 tracks "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."

Quote from Anna about “Disposable Camera”

"A song for the everything of it all. For the wild science fiction of coming into the world. For the way it will break your heart. For the way it will make it race.

Sometimes songs are slow and archeological, and sometimes they come busting out in one furious motion, just a feverish feeling needing to come alive in language. I guess I wrote ‘disposable camera’ in this frame of mind, trying to get at the chaos and the meaning, the roulette wheel of places and situations to be born into, and the deep human urge to find beauty in the struggle. "