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Survival (deluxe)

by Anna Kashfi

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A Lonely Place 03:20
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Glass House 03:39
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The Loser's Prize 02:04
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Drinker's Song 04:07
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Red Rag Doll 02:30
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Devil's Bridge 04:50
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String Loop 04:51
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Bumblebee 02:22
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Your Baby 02:21
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1936 05:02
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Chain Of Command 05:26
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Church On The Village Green 07:55
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The Sky Is Empty (bonus track) 03:17
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Broken Woman (bonus track) 02:19
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The Greatest Sleep (bonus track) 04:07
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Small Wave (bonus track) 03:04
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Bird Of Prey 01:57
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All I Need Is Your Touch featuring Matt Hill (bonus track) 02:30
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The Ballad Of Lucy Partington (bonus track) 03:11
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The God Delusion (bonus track) 03:21
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Nothing Can Save You (bonus track) 05:46
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22.
The Loser's Reprise (bonus track) 01:08
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Q
4/5 “A delicate mix, tailor made for the freak-folk world. Ace in the hole is vocalist Sian Webley, a kind of folk Beth Gibbons.”

MOJO
4/5 “Truly outstanding.”

UNCUT
“Literate, often menacing songs about love, sex and God. The highlight is 'Devil's Bridge' with Willard Grant Conspiracy's Robert Fisher voicing the devil in a devastating duet that's one of the best of its kind since Nick Cave/Polly Harvey collaborations.”

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“I was born when you kissed me, I died when you left.” So begins the third album from Anna Kashfi, the Manchester-based band named after Marlon Brando's first wife. She was presumed to be an exotic Indian beauty who was later revealed as the daughter of a Welsh steelworker and the duality and tragedy of the real-life Anna Kashfi is a recurring feature of 'Survival'. That sense of characters being vulnerable to the whims of the world and circumstance, of the thin-line between existing and being wiped-out forever.

Sian Webley is the voice behind these characters and she gives them a life, a sadness and a wit that speaks volumes. In 'Drinker's Song' she reflects that “Time has pulled its killer punch, Destroyed the gifts that made us drunk” and you can feel a thousand alcohol-induced regrets stack up on the scales of a life. Many of Webley's words unpick the conflicts between lovers and the emotional battles played out in relationships, but she builds on those games with 'Devil's Bridge'. A duet, of sorts, with Robert Fisher of kindred spirits Willard Grant Conspiracy, the song relates the story of how the townsfolk of a Tuscan town tricked the devil into building their bridge for free. Fisher plays the devil of course, superbly so.

Musically, 'Survival' is Anna Kashfi in widescreen. Where their previous album ‘Procurement’ (Little Red Rabbit, 2008) moved in slow motion through late-night laments and droning psychedelic folk, on 'Survival' you can really feel producer/arranger James Youngjohns testing how far he can push Webley's vocals. 'String Loop' is built on exactly that and even features electronic percussion before exploding into life whilst 'Red Rag Doll' kicks up a bluegrass duststorm that puts most alt-country acts in the shade. There's even space for an a capella number – 'Loser's Prize' – on which four close-harmony voices assert that “Life is a game that no-one can win”, a game where “An honest man loses out”. Maybe, but with 'Survival', Anna Kashfi detail a victory worth fighting for.

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released January 25, 2010

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Little Red Rabbit Records Manchester, UK

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