Grace Annabella Anderson's - Art Baby Album Review
Yearning through art.
Self. Something that we all develop at a young age and something that continues to develop as we continue to get older. The self is sometimes something that we lose when we encounter others and we begin to make ourselves small. In Art, Baby, the debut album by New York based artist, Grace Annabella Anderson, she is reclaiming herself and the art that makes her, her.
There are 13 tracks on this album that traverse feelings of love, desire and chagrin with lyrics that are filled with vulnerability and power of self. The atmosphere that she creates of this lover is one of mystery but also one of someone we have encountered and we know.
Songs like “Art,Baby” show how she is going back to her art to reclaim who she was but also to come to terms that perhaps this lover was also not putting the same effort. They create this joyous soundscape as if finding the silver lining in the situation and acknowledging how this helped her move forward in who she wants to be.
Another track that creates such a deep sound and atmosphere is “Transgressor”. The haunting sound makes the lyrics feel like a knife being stabbed into the heart. It is a call out all the negative characteristics the person had in their being yet didn’t actively show them. They were the manipulator in a series of multiple issues and didn’t seem to acknowledge their wrongdoing. Grace sees how he “rationed his heart” to give her only what he thinks she wanted.
It can be seen how there is deep recollection and reflection on the past, especially with the song “Take It Back” as if claiming that she no longer wants anything to do with him. She wants everything that reminds her of him to be absolutely gone, even when she sometimes wants him in moments that remind her of him. The yearning and power of self, is wholeheartedly shown by this point in the album.
As she closes out the album with, “Time to Let You Go”, which gave me an air of Sabrina Carpenter, but she has her own way with the sound that shows she is different. Moving on is a very poignant with the fact that she calls back to all the groups she was introduced to and now that they broke up, the groups prefer her. It is a harsh reminder that you have to move forward sometime, even if it breaks your heart to not be near them anymore. What a perfect way to close out such yearning-filled album.
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