Annahstasia – Tether

»Tether« – a jazz-infused, soul-drenched torch song folk record – feels like an album from a different era, but at the same so urgent and exciting unlike any other these days. At times, Annahstasia Enuke evokes the ecstatic calm of B. Glenn-Copeland’s earliest albums, and at her most dramatic sounds like Anohni after inhaling Norah Jones’ back catalogue. Hell, the last song here is best described as a reimagination of »Farewell Transmission« by Bryan Adams, and yet all of this – with the exception of a less-than lukewarm spoken word piece in between – is absolutely flawless, contemporary, and innovative in its own ways. It’s even got an Obongjayar feature that feels necessary, a first in music history.