QUIT THE CURSE (180G LIGHT GREEN VINYL)

Anna Burch TITLE: Quit the Curse'-- The Detroit singer/songwriter has been visible for the better part of her years-long career singing in Frontier Ruckus, or more recently co-fronting Failed Flowers, but somewhere along the way a vibrant collection of solo material slowly began taking form. Growing up in Michigan, BurchAEs fixation with music transitioned from a childhood of Disney and Carole King sing-alongs to more typically angsty teenage years spent covering Bright Eyes and Fiona Apple at open mic nights. 2018 oTo me this album marks the end of an era of uncertainty. Writing songs about my emotional struggles helped me to work through some negative patterns in my personal life, while giving me the sense of creative agency I'd been searching for.o The nine songs that comprise Quit the Curse come on sugary and upbeat, but their darker lyrical themes and serpentine song structures are tucked neatly into what seem at first just like uncommonly catchy tunes. BurchAEs crystal clear vocal harmonies and gracefully crafted songs feel so warm and friendly that itAEs easy to miss the lyrics about destructive relationships, daddy issues and substance abuse that cling like spiderwebs to the hooky melodies. The maddeningly absent lover being sung to in o2 Cool 2 Careo, the crowded exhaustion of oWith You Every Dayo or even the grim, paranoid tale of scoring drugs in oAsking 4 A Friendo sometimes feel overshadowed by the shimmering sonics that envelop them. Emerging from years spent as a supporting player, Quit the Curse stands as a liberation from feeling like BurchAEs own songwriting voice was just out of reach -- an opportunity, finally, for the world at large to hear whatAEs been on her mind for quite a while.'