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Anarchist Gospel
Artist
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Sunny War
Label
New West Records
Catalogue Number
NW6532 SD
Release Date
February 3, 2023

“I feel like there are two sides of me,” says the Nashville-based singer-songwriter and guitar virtuoso known as Sunny War. “One of them is very self-destructive, and the other is trying to work with that other half to keep things balanced.” That’s the central conflict on her fourth album, the eclectic and innovative Anarchist Gospel, which documents a time when it looked like the self-destructive side might win out.

Extreme emotions can make that battle all the more perilous, yet from such trials Sunny has crafted a set of songs that draw on a range of ideas and styles, as though she’s marshaling all her forces to get her ideas across: ecstatic gospel, dusty country blues, thoughtful folk, rip-roaring rock and roll, even avant garde studio experiments. She melds them together into a powerful statement of survival, revealing a probing songwriter who indulges no comforting platitudes and a highly innovative guitarist who deploys spidery riffs throughout every song.

Because it promises not healing but resilience and perseverance, because it doesn’t take shit for granted, Anarchist Gospel holds up under such intense emotional pressure, acknowledging the pain of living while searching for something that lies just beyond ourselves, some sense of balance between the bad and the good.

Digital Tracklist

  1. 1 Love's Death Bed (feat. Allison Russell and Chris Pierce) 3:00 Buy

    Love's Death Bed (feat. Allison Russell and Chris Pierce)

  2. 2 No Reason 2:39 Buy

    No Reason

  3. 3 Shelter And Storm (feat. David Rawlings) 2:40 Buy

    Shelter And Storm (feat. David Rawlings)

  4. 4 I Got No Fight 4:59 Buy

    I Got No Fight

  5. 5 Swear To Gawd (feat. David Rawlings and Chris Pierce) 2:49 Buy

    Swear To Gawd (feat. David Rawlings and Chris Pierce)

  6. 6 Earth (feat. Jim James) 3:23 Buy

    Earth (feat. Jim James)

  7. 7 New Day 3:21 Buy

    New Day

  8. 8 Baby Bitch 2:57 Buy

    Baby Bitch

  9. 9 His Love 2:31 Buy

    His Love

  10. 10 Hopeless (feat. Allison Russell and Chris Pierce) 4:56 Buy

    Hopeless (feat. Allison Russell and Chris Pierce)

  11. 11 Higher (feat. David Rawlings) 3:23 Buy

    Higher (feat. David Rawlings)

  12. 12 Test Dummy 2:24 Buy

    Test Dummy

  13. 13 Sweet Nothing 7:07 Buy

    Sweet Nothing

  14. 14 Whole 3:19 Buy

    Whole

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