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PRE-ORDER Anne Arboles "Pure Fanfiction" Digital Download
PRE-ORDER Anne Arboles "Pure Fanfiction" Digital Download
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Los Angeles-based artist Anna Arboles is releasing their new seven-song EP “Pure Fanfiction,” out Friday, February 14th, 2025. You can hear the first single "By Any Means Necessary" Tuesday, December 3rd via Anxiety Blanket Records wherever music is streamed.
"These songs are about passing into adulthood and clarifying who I wanted to be, but are not necessarily about my life,” says Arboles. “I wrote these songs as soundtracks to movies, TV shows, books, or photographs that catalyzed introspection. They’re like fanfiction for my life.”
Anna hit the studio with Calvin Lauber (boygenius, The Ophelias) in the winter of 2022/2023. “Pure Fanfiction” was recorded at Memphis Magnetic in Memphis and Altamira Sound in Los Angeles. Longtime collaborator Jessy Reed lent drumming skills to “By Any Means Necessary,” “Joni” and “Tableau.”
About the first single, Anna says, “'By Any Means Necessary,' was written as a love letter to the movie By Hook or By Crook by Harry Dodge and Silas Howard. A seminal queer film about the power of friendship, the story is a touchstone for my own experiences with friends who have helped me come into my own. Musically, the song is meant to flow from the verses into the tension and release of the chorus line “I don’t know if I can do it” – the overwhelm that your desires in life might force you to change, but the relief in self-actualization.
