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Anna B Savage - You and i are Earth (Album Review)

Thursday, 30 January 2025 Written by Tom Morgan

Photo: Katie Silvester 

During the past few years, almost everyone will have felt the urge to escape our polarised digital present, if only for a short while. Escaping into nature is a welcome panacea, like sinking into the moss and ferns on the cover of ‘You & i are Earth’.

Anna B Savage’s third studio album is all about this sort of healing. According to the Dublin singer-songwriter it’s “a love letter to a man and to Ireland”. Its 10 tracks are a gentle but nuanced folk-rock collection, coursing with the same air of serenity, wonder and eeriness as an ancient Celtic forest.

Savage’s lyrical sentiments are often profoundly sincere. On Lighthouse, she compares the unnamed man in her life to the titular building, whom she refers to as “my home”. It’s far from a complex metaphor, but Savage’s strong imagery and aching sincerity ensure that the emotional sentiment hits hard.

The music of ‘You & i are Earth’ lands with a touch less force. Several tracks blur into one and feel a bit underdeveloped. For example, Big & Wild’s 90 seconds of picked acoustic guitars need shape and structure affixed to them.

The strongest track on the album, by a mile, is Donegal. A resplendent indie-folk beauty that sets Savage’s unorthodox voice soaring, it compounds layers of instrumentation while sacrificing none of the album’s delicate, ethereal charm. While ‘You & i are Earth’ is sometimes a bit pensive for its own good, the talented Savage’s latest is a mostly engrossing escape into a welcome otherworld.

Anna B Savage Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows:

Wed February 12 2025 - BRISTOL Bristol Beacon - Lantern Hall
Thu February 13 2025 - MANCHESTER Night & Day
Fri February 14 2025 - GLASGOW Stereo
Sat February 15 2025 - LEEDS Brudenell Social Club
Mon February 17 2025 - BIRMINGHAM Hare And Hounds
Tue February 18 2025 - BRIGHTON Patterns
Wed February 19 2025 - MARGATE Where Else?
Thu February 20 2025 - LONDON Union Chapel
Thu March 20 2025 - CORK Coughlans
Fri March 21 2025 - GALWAY Roisin Dubh
Sat March 22 2025 - DUBLIN Unitarian Church

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