ALBUM REVIEW: On ‘These Are the Days’ Michaela Anne Finds the Sacred in the Everyday
Of all the ways to learn the art of letting go, parenthood may be the swiftest, stripping away the wanting and the vanity, pushing you forcefully into the present. To capture it earnestly and without saccharine is a genuine feat, one Michaela Anne mastered in her 2022 release Oh to
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Of all the ways to learn the art of letting go, parenthood may be the swiftest, stripping away the wanting and the vanity, pushing you forcefully into the present. To capture it earnestly and without saccharine is a genuine feat, one Michaela Anne mastered in her 2022 release Oh to Be That Free, and now in its stunning follow-up out this Friday. These Are the Days may be Anne’s fifth album, but it’s the first she has crowdfunded and released on her own label Georgia June Records, a meaningful move toward reclaiming her artistry.
in the wake of welcoming her second child, Anne keeps finding new ways to capture the brutally fleeting sweetness of motherhood in a voice that is so wholly and assuredly her own. These Are the Days wonders, how do you measure a life? On the surface, it’s in the wrinkles and greys, softening bellies and scars, and all the bits of the physical self that are inevitable and yet become, inevitably, something to undo rather than celebrate.
