SUNNY WAR - ANARCHIST GOSPEL

Cat. no: 0607396570218PMI
Format: LP
Barcode: 0607396570218
Release Date: Mar 2025
Genre: Folk/Americana

“I feel like there are two sides of me,” says the Nashville-based singer-songwriter and guitar virtuoso known as Sunny War. “One of them is very  self-destructive, and the other is trying to work with that other half to keep things balanced.” That’s the central conflict on her fourth album, the eclectic and innovative Anarchist Gospel, which documents a time when it looked like the self-destructive side might win out.

Extreme emotions can make that battle all the more perilous, yet from such trials
Sunny has crafted a set of songs that draw on a range of ideas and styles, as though
she’s marshaling all her forces to get her ideas across: ecstatic gospel, dusty country
blues, thoughtful folk, rip-roaring rock and roll, even avant garde studio experiments.
She melds them together into a powerful statement of survival, revealing a probing
songwriter who indulges no comforting platitudes and a highly innovative guitarist who
deploys spidery riffs throughout every song.
 
Because it promises not healing but resilience and perseverance, because it doesn’t
take shit for granted, Anarchist Gospel holds up under such intense emotional pressure,
acknowledging the pain of living while searching for something that lies just beyond
ourselves, some sense of balance between the bad and the good.
Tracks:
1. Love's Death Bed 
2. No Reason 
3. Shelter And Storm 
4. I Got No Fight 
5. Swear To Gawd 
6. Earth 
7. New Day 
8. Baby Bitch
9. His Love 
10. Hopeless 
11. Higher 
12. Test Dummy 
13. Sweet Nothing 
14. Whole