Photo Credit: Anna Victoria Best
Celebrated UK composer and electronic artist Anna Meredith is excited to share her latest single, “Calion,” premiering today on Adult Swim as a part of their singles program. She’s also thrilled to be heading back to the US for her second-ever visit, with a string of tour dates kicking off on Thursday, January 25th in San Francisco. The tour is in continued support of her stunning debut album Varmints, which was named “Best New Music” by Pitchfork and is out now on Moshi Moshi. All upcoming US tour dates are listed below.
“...a renowned, groundbreaking force… Varmints is a knockout,
the kind that makes you see cartoon stars.” - Pitchfork
“There's more than a fair chance that the set of Meredith sounds one hears first will be nothing like the next, common threads being a love of compositions that build and a comfort with rhythm and textures which places her in both the contemporary classical community and the experimental electronic music camp. Neither allegiance is tenuous.” - NPR Music
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Anna Meredith is a genre-crossing composer and producer whose work straddles the worlds of contemporary classical, art pop, electronica and experimental rock. After building an established career in the classical world and two critically acclaimed EPs, she released her much-anticipated debut album, Varmints on Moshi Moshi Records. The critical response was overwhelming with 4 and 5 star reviews across the board from the likes of The Wire, Sunday Times, Uncut, Q Magazine, The Line of Best Fit, DIY and the coveted Best New Music [8.4] on Pitchfork. As well as being Loud & Quiet’s Album of the Year, Varmints also won the Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) award.
Her dizzying CV includes being Composer in Residence for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, a piece written for MRI scanner, soundtracking PRADA’s Spring/Summer 2015 campaign, symphonies created for nursery children, music for park benches in Hong Kong and sleep-pods in Singapore. Her body-percussion piece HandsFree received rave reviews from it’s performances at Southbank Centre, Royal Albert Hall, Barbican Centre, Utah Youth Symphony and even flash-mobbing the M6 services. She is a regular presenter and guest on radio (Radio3 and 6Music) and television and her music is frequently broadcast on BBC 1, 2, 3, 4, & 6 as well as in films, installations and TV.
Upcoming Tour Dates:
JANUARY
25 - San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
26 - Los Angeles, CA @ Bootleg Theater
31 - Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
FEBRUARY
01 - New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge
02 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry
03 - Washington, DC @ U Street Music Hall
06 - Chicago, IL @ Schubas
07 - Minneapolis, MN @ Liquid Music @ Aria
09 - Northfield, MN @ Weitz Center for Creativity
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