Back in June we wrote about ‘Somewhere in the Middle‘, the first single from Daneshevskaya forthcoming album Long Is The Tunnel, coming soon on Winspear. “A curious, searching song which broaches the subject of identity from an unguarded, almost child-like perspective,” as we put it, with Anna Daneshevskaya Beckerman drawing upon the poetry of her grandmother to achieve an open, attentive voice. The track encapsulated the spirit of the record in its warm, careful tone, where the past, present and future are treated not as distinct things but rather parts of an encompassing whole.
Latest single ‘Big Bear’ continues this style to striking effect. Sounding far larger than its sub-two-and-a half-minute runtime, the track swells around a repeated refrain: “The biggest bird I’ve ever seen / Landed right in front of me / I don’t know what the reason was / I can’t tell a dove from a.” And then, as though charged by this incantation, the sound soars into something enveloping, lifting the listener into its bright certainty while still tending towards aposiopesis.
I get what I wish like a scratch get’s her itch
And all I was able
All I was able
To say was what I wanted
All I ever wanted
All I ever wanted
All I ever wanted
Was for the last time to be whole
A rain cloud without a
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Watch the video by Isabel Santos below:
Long Is The Tunnel is out via Winspear on the 10th November and you can pre-order it now from the Daneshevskaya Bandcamp page.
Cover photo by Marcus Maddox, layout and design by Winona Hudec