''Anaïs Mitchell'' is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter

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, her first release on the label. The album features musical contributions from Michael Lewis, JT Bates, Thomas Bartlett,

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and Nico Muhly.

Promotion

"Bright Star" was released as the album's first single on October 28, 2021. It is an

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song "about looking back on years of restless pursuit and making peace with the source of that longing: the Muse, the Great Unknown, the One That Got Away – those things that motivate us that we never can touch." It impacted adult alternative radio on January 10, 2022. Album opener "Brooklyn Bridge" was released as the second single from the album on December 2, 2021. Of the song, Mitchell said "Having left New York, I was able to write a love letter to it in a way I never could when I was living there. It was like, fuck it. This is how I feel. There is nothing more beautiful than riding over one of the New York bridges at night next to someone who inspires you." "On Your Way (Felix Song)" was released as the third single on January 12, 2022. Dedicated to the late Felix McTeigue, Mitchell said of him "We briefly had the same manager in our early 'hustling days' of trying to get a songwriter career going. I can picture us playing at the old Living Room on the lower east side, and me being one of five people in Felix's audience, and vice versa. Felix was really fearless and present, he always had a guitar on his back, he was always writing something, he loved the act of just rushing headlong into writing, recording, not overthinking it. It's a lesson I'll return to for the rest of my life." Mitchell will tour the album across the United States and Europe in 2022, with her band Bonny Light Horseman joining her for some American dates.

Track listing

Personnel

Musicians *

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(3), clarinet (6), synthesizer (10) * JT Bates – drums, percussion (1–8, 10) * Josh Kaufman – electric guitar (1–8), synthesizer (1, 10), bass (3), piano (3, 9),

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(4, 6) organ (6, 10), harmonica (8),

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(10), synth bass (10) *

– electric guitar (1, 2, 4, 10) * Nico Muhly – ensemble, string arrangement (1); arrangement (6, 9, 10) * Thomas Bartlett – piano (1, 2, 4–8, 10), synthesizer (1–4, 9, 10),

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(2, 3, 8, 9),

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(4),

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(6), organ (7) * Nadia Sirota – viola (1, 9, 10) * Nathan Schram – violin (1, 9, 10) * Alex Sopp – flute (6) Technical * Josh Kaufman – production *

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– mastering * Steve Fallone – mastering * D. James Goodwin – mixing * Bella Blasko –

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Charts

References

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