On September 27th, Yep Roc Records will release Desert Dove, Michaela Anne’s full-length follow up to her critically-acclaimed Bright Lights and the Fame. “By Our Design,” the album’s first single and video, was premiered last month by Rolling Stone. The song, a mid-tempo burn framed with dense violins and tremolo guitar, is a sweet ode to a carved-out life together; imperfect, but adaptive and free.
Michaela Anne attacks most of the album with a sharp feminine perspective, dealing out wisdom, confidence, and sass with authority and maturity that is never tiresome. “When I got to Nashville, I was told the ‘rules’ of songwriting,” Michaela recounts. “I was informed that a woman in a country song can never be the victim, but she can also never be the perpetrator. That’s not real life. As a woman, sometimes you’re everything all at once, and I wanted to write about those real experiences.”
Desert Dove is Michaela Anne’s first release as a new signee to Yep Roc Records (the partnership was announced on May 16th this year). Michaela Anne will tour in support of this release and was recently included in the first round of artist announcements for Nashville’s long-running AMERICANAFEST 2019.
**Just played at The Kraken and The Festival for the Eno last week, maybe some local folks heard her!
Song: “By Our Design” by Michaela Anne, available on Spotify
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