Next week, City Slang are giving Anna von Hausswolff’s second album of dark-hued, cinematic pop Ceremony a worldwide release. Listeners in her native Sweden, where it’s already out, will have already wrapped their ears around it, but for the rest of us we’re pleased to host a full stream of the album – listen below:
Says von Hausswolff of the album: “I didn’t just want Ceremony to be a collection of songs. I wanted it to be like a film, with every single part connected to the other, with shifting moods and settings, but a thread holding all the tracks together. I listen to a lot of film scores, and in many the music is able to move freely without the typical structures that we find in commercial music.”
She recorded part of her follow-up to 2010’s Singing From The Grave in her hometown of Gothenburg, making use of the Annedalskyrkan cathedral’s organ, as evident on the sweeping sprawl of ‘Deathbed’ – have a watch of the video below:
AUGUST
Sat 10 – Haldern Pop Festival, Haldern, Germany
Sun 18 – Green Man Festival, Black Mountain, Wales
Sun 25 – Grachten Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sat 31 – End Of The Road Festival, Salisbury
SEPTEMBER
Sat 21 – Amerikaans Theater, Brussels, Belgium
Fri 27 – Reeperbahnfestival, Hamburg, Germany
OCTOBER
Thu 3 – Enjoy Jazz Festival, Heidelberg, Germany
Fri 4 – Paterre, Basel, Switzerland
Sat 12 – Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz, Austria
Wed 30 – Airwaves Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland
