Durtro / Jnana
2006
Songs From The Coal Mine Canary
About This Album
The most constant subject in Little Annie's (aka Annie Anxiety and Annie Bandez) work, whether she is painting, writing prose, or recording her songs, is love. Songs from the Coalmine Canary is her seventh full-length album. And, as has been her wont, it sounds completely different from any of her other offerings. Produced by Joseph Budenholzer (who also co-wrote a number of tracks and is the session's guitarist) and Antony -- of Antony and the Johnsons -- who also played piano and co-wrote a number of cuts here with Annie, and released on Durtro Jnana, Songs is, on many levels, her most searing yet most celebratory album yet. "Freddy and Me," kicks it off with the names of philosophers, psychoanalysts, sex, cultural symbols, medical conditions, drugs, religions, spiritual icons, bodily fluids, and philosophies, all accompanied by an acoustic guitar and shimmering cymbals. When the band pops in full of a cabaret orchestra's take on pop and Annie starts to sing, the need for solace and solitude in the midst of desperation is what rolls out of her mouth. But the real shock is in the refrain: "Won't you get down on your knees/and wash my weary feet made out of clay.
Track List (try tracks 2,4,6,8 and 9)

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