Album Review: Anaïs Mitchell by Anaïs Mitchell

With the last fifteen years of her professional life consumed by Hadestown - a phenomenon she has labelled as "some kind of hell" - the COVID-19 pandemic forced Mitchell to give into stillness. Having moved from New York to Vermont at the start of the pandemic, and shortly after giving birth to her second child, she began writing the songs that would make up her self-titled album in solitude. Then, when the world began to re-open, she enlisted the help of long-time collaborators Aaron Dessner and Thomas Bartlett, among others.

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Anaïs Mitchell has spent a little over a decade getting lost in worlds rich in character and wonder–whether it's the 2012's concept album Young Man in America or 2010's Greek tragedy turned Broadway musical Hadestown. So to hear the Vermont singer-songwriter and playwright take a back-to-basics approach for her seventh studio album feels like she's reclaiming herself once again. Mitchell's self-titled comeback is honest songwriting in its purest form, on which she navigates memories and emotions with charming, understated chamber-folk.

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