Good morning everyone!

This is a Fem Fri about the first album of 2022 that I really love. It's by Anaïs Mitchell (I don't think we are related) who you might know from the musical Hadestown. Here's my favourite track from the album, this is Revenant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwk9ZkLEisw&list=OLAK5uy_kB5_rZ3xrMmrAWnDL0i5fv5_RCUyfdlHc&index=3

I'm playing it in the study where I'm writing and it is so lovely.

Also, wow this was kind of a lockdown album. I'm always impressed by people who did activities other than cry all the time in early lockdown:

As an early lockdown activity, some members committed to writing a song a day. To her surprise, Mitchell emerged with the bones of an album. “There was something about being completely removed from my milieu and also feeling a reconnection with my childhood,” she says. “I felt really invisible. I wasn’t doing it to prove anything. I wanted to do it before I even noticed what I was doing.” It could not be more different from Hadestown: a sprint rather than a marathon; intimate rather than epic.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jan/16/anais-mitchell-interview-hadestown-musical

I have shared my favourite song and here is the single Bright Star. It's also great and maybe easier to engage with immediately:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijMnvVmkaRU

I hope you have enjoyed this music. Please let me know if there are albums you are particularly jamming on so far this year!

A xx.