other titles...
- Anniversary Song
- Footsteps
- Count On Me (feat. Great Lake Swimmers)
- Rattlesnake
- Blue Blaze
- Someone Like You
- 3AM
- Flowers In My Hair (feat. Great Lake Swimmers)
- Blue Electric Skies
- Wait Up
- Stars (feat. Great Lake Swimmers)
Abigail Lapell
Anniversary
Outside
Lapell's deft lyrics jostle with love song tropes, grappling with love's finitude and the irony of how co-dependency and longing are revered in popular music.
A ghost story is woven through the album: waltzing in the dusty barroom country of "Blue Blaze," buried in the superstitious lyrical streak of "Rattlesnake" and audible in a wheezing organ as it shuts down at the end of "Footsteps." Still, "Anniversary" emerges as an earnest celebration of commitment. Earworms like "Anniversary Song" and "Someone Like You" showcase intricately layered harmonies, while closer "Stars" affirms that there's no place the speaker would rather be than with the one she loves.