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Impossible Accomplice

by Annie Hart

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wildwind so beautiful, hypnotic and intimate album..I love it! Favorite track: I Don't Want Your Love.
joshua kim
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joshua kim saw Au Revoir Simone on Twin Peaks, like all the music there it blew my mind. Annie Hart's solo work has the same dreaminess but with a little more pop to it, totally lovely.
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theodora thunder I love that when I opened my tape... there was a little note saying thank you!

this is heart felt through out, with gritty honesty and vulnerability.
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janus-propper Electronic droning and angular compositions accompany a simplistic pop combine for some jaggedly sweet ear candy.
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starpunk1 This whole album is peaceful. I saw and met Annie Hart, her set was short but very sweet (a snowstorm shortened the gig). She signed my Au Revoir Simone CDs and I've love to see all 3 of them live as well. Calm electronic flourishes and soft feminine vocals make this music some really fine stuff for the late evening. Check it out. Favorite track: Run To You.
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1.
You gave me what you wanted I gave you what you asked me for. You got it. I don't want to harden anymore. I don't want to go on as a copy of a copy. I don't want your love i don't want your love anymore Make me one in four, maybe one in five A sleight of hand, out of time. I cut you off, you breathe me back in. Wear me down, weathered gray worn away away away away. I don't want to melt away away away. Now I don't want your love I don't want your love anymore If I could give you up, you would give me up You take me down I'm too complicated, it's too complicated: on and on and on and on and so on (and on and on and on and on) Now I don't want your love I don't want your love anymore.
2.
I never loved anyone like this It's so hard to be still. Come around again and meet me on your way back home. I understand you now for the first time in years. For the first time in years You gave me what I want You gave me what I want You gave me what I want I got nothing left to ask you for. And I'll never give you up I'll never give you up I'll never give you up I made a promise but it's more than that now.
3.
Run To You 03:36
You tell me everything Except what I wanna know About who you love And why you're hanging around. Don't bring me closer, ooh. Don't bring me closer to you. Cos when you walk in the room I want to run to you. I wanna run to you run, run, run, run, run, run I wanna run to you. People are noticing I'm hanging on to heavy unsaid words. Don't bring me closer, ooh. Don't bring me closer to you. Cos when you walk in the room I want to run to you. I wanna run to you run, run, run, run, run, run I wanna run to you.
4.
The first time that I tried it I could tell that you were lying You told me I could have you, then you'd deny it I don't want you to come here and I don't want her to cry, But I told you i would have you and I don't like to lie. Out on the sidewalk and then underneath the color, a photographic power, I told you to love her But you come with me again because you're dying to be free And I come with you again because it comes so easily. Meet me under the water. Then you meet me on the way down. First you meet me under the water, Then you meet me on the way down. Don't give me that, because I deserve more.
5.
I never sighed relief Uncatchable in restlessness Those dark waves are pushing me pulling me. My heart's been broken, too. A scattered life, waiting before. No substitute for sleeping. Your stone gaze is reaching me, hear me: My heart's been broken, too.
6.
When you leave, I can feel the feeling of your face on my cheek. Don't leave it there. I go to sleep hoping you're there. It's no release. I had a taste of a word I can't pronounce. You made its shape in lines across my mouth. I'm on a broken border, Pull me in, I'll make your move my move. And when you leave. I can feel the feeling of your face on my cheek. Don't leave it there. I go to sleep hoping you're there. It's no release. You tear me up and then fall dark I want it all, I fall apart. I fall apart.
7.
I've been seeing you in my sleep And I've been seeing you in my dreams Where it's easy to know and it's easy to know you like You were mine. They were gone, driving around We just stayed home. Cos I wanna hold I wanna hold you like And I wanna know and I wanna know you like You were mine Come to me, come closer Come to me, come closer Cos I wanna hold I wanna hold you like And I wanna know, I wanna know you like You were mine.
8.
Softly 02:16
I wanna know where you're going Cos I wanna know where you're going to be If I called you, Would you answer me in the night? Once more around on your arm, But I don't mean to follow you home. If I called you, would you answer If I wanted to hear your voice?

about

Annie Hart is best known as one-third of Au Revoir Simone, the beloved all-female synth trio that counts David Lynch as a superfan. But with the eight tracks on her solo debut, "Impossible Accomplice" (Uninhabitable Mansions, July 28), Annie will emerge as an electrifying artist and producer in her own right.

During the band's hiatus, she has been crafting pop songs on classic synthesizers, with a less-is-more approach, writing and engineering the record on her own in the basement of her Brooklyn home, sneaking sessions in while her children were sleeping. Greatly influenced by the spare synthesizer sounds of Laurie Spiegel and the post-punk sensibility of artists like Tubeway Army, Annie has embraced her love of meticulously crafting the perfect tone to match the emotion of a song. "Be it melancholy, longing, happiness or simple desire, there is no better way to explain my innermost world than by going past words and into the intuitive and visceral feeling that a particular sound can evoke.”

In songs such as the first single, "Hard To Be Still" (featured on an upcoming episode of Netflix series, Gypsy, starring Naomi Watts), Annie cuts back the layers to reveal a rawer version of the dreamy synth pop her band was famous for forging. Solo, Annie has opened for artists such as M. Ward and Neko Case, and will be playing a handful of shows this summer in support of the new record.

Praise for Annie Hart’s Solo Work:

“A strong ear for melody” - Bill Pearis, Brooklyn Vegan

"Her low-fi, gossamer sound is like starched sheets stretched tight over brittle rock candy drum—resonant, tender, and not too sweet. The tendency towards fuzzy, underwater tones is cut by her clear voice that breaks through and pulls in the daylight.” - Bradley Spinelli, Bedford and Bowery

"Bathed in a sea of synthesizers and filled with the kind of enchanting vocals that brought her Brooklyn-based band so much love.” - Rob Goodman, The Bay Bridged

LINER NOTES AND THANK YOUS:

I never would have made this if Keith Murray and Heather D'Angelo hadn't forced me to believe in my songs and make a record to share with the world. I could not dedicate the time to this project without Doug Marvin being an equal partner and the best husband on the planet. Thank you Henry and Frankie Jane for loving these songs and believing in me.

Thank you to Jenna Gribbon, Jane Herships, Michael Lerner, Keith Carne, Drew Citron, Sebastian Kim, Brianna Lance, Alexa Wilding, Mike Powell, Robbie Guertin, Natalia Read-Harber, Kyrre Kristofferson, Kei Kondo, Fred Armisen, Jorge Elbrecht, Paul Hanly, Jenny Eliscu & Liv Willars, for your endless help on this project.

Thank you Joe Robinson for insisting I don't sell myself short. We all miss you.

credits

released September 15, 2017

All songs written & recorded & performed by Annie Hart in her basement, except drums and bass for "Hard To Be Still" recorded at Fred Armisen's apartment.
"Breathing Underwater," "My Heart's Been Broken," "I Don't Want Your Love," "Run To You" and "Hard To Be Still" mixed by Jorge Elbrecht. Other songs mixed by Annie.
Mastered by Paul Gold at Salt Studios.
Published by Triple Keyboard Action, ASCAP

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"Sumptuous synth-pop" - Vogue

Annie Hart is a film composer, solo artist, and part of synth trio Au Revoir Simone. She makes beautiful, intimate, hypnotic keyboard music.

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