Today, ANOHNI announced a new album with the Johnsons called My Back Was a Bridge for You To Cross, which will arrive on July 7 via Secretly Canadian. The first glimpse of her follow-up to 2016's HOPELESSNESS is the moving single “It Must Change.” “I’ve been thinking a lot about Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On,” she shared about the album. “That was a really important touchstone in my mind. Some of these songs respond to global and environmental concerns first voiced in popular music over 50 years ago.”
She continued: “I want the record to be useful. I learned with HOPELESSNESS that I can provide a soundtrack that might fortify people in their work, in their activism, in their dreaming and decision-making. I can sing of an awareness that makes others feel less alone, people for whom the frank articulation of these frightening times is not a source of discomfort but a cause for identification and relief. I want the work to be useful, to help others move with dignity and resilience through these conversations we are now facing.”
Listen to "It Must Change" below, and pre-order My Back Was a Bridge for You To Cross here.
