Adeem the Artist

This 12-song collection is a stunning statement of empathy, humor, and deep introspection.

Walker’s ability to blend sounds from classic to contemporary, commercial to experimental, givesAdeem license to play with a range of musical styles on Anniversary, while still remaining tethered to country and roots music. Adeem has a way of presenting impossibly heavy and deep subject matters in an empathetic, humane way, always digging deeper to find the complicated truths that are contained within. This record is the continuation of a project that they began four years ago, directing their attention both inwards and outwards simultaneously and to exact correlating values so that they might be able to unbind the inner workings of themself while imagining new tools for stitching the fabric of society together again. It mostly just made some gay people like country music again. “This one feels a lot more personal and earnest — a lot of it is very close to the chest,” Adeem says. “This record is a marker as well as a collection of individual markers. I’m saying, ‘This is who I am as an artist and this is the world I want to try to help create.’"