Video: Anna Burch – “Not So Bad”
Directed by Anna Burch. From If You’re Dreaming, out April 3 on Polyvinyl.
Anna Burch first caught our attention hula-hooping in her “2 Cool 2 Care” video. That whole album, Quit the Curse, was solid, and now she’s back with the first single from her second album. It features the same clean guitar tones and upfront double-tracked vocals that we first fell in love with but the instrumentation here is a little jazzier, i.e., features saxophone.
Burch says it’s “an optimistic love song about retreating into memories to find what you need to feel in control of your own narrative when everything else around you feels precarious.”
She adds, “I wrote ‘Not So Bad’ the day before I left to record, because I felt there was an important piece of the album missing—a hopeful, escapist pop song that dealt more positively with themes the other songs were circling around—and luckily it came together almost immediately. The chord progression felt light and jazzy, and when I started to write the words I remembered my mom bugging me about how melancholic my lyrics tend to be, ‘Surely your life hasn’t all been that bad!'”
The video was dreamily filmed at the Senate Theater in Detroit.
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2020 Tour Dates
03/14 – Cincinnati, OH @ MOTR Pub
03/15 – St. Louis, MO @ Blueberry Hill
03/16 – Fayetteville, AR @ George’s Majestic Lounge
03/17-20 – Austin, TX @ SXSW
03/22 – Norman, OK @ Opolis
03/24 – Bloomington, IN @ The Bishop
04/03 – Detroit, MI @ UFO Factory #
04/04 – Toronto, ON @ The Baby G #
04/05 – Montreal, QC @ Casa Del Popolo #
04/07 – Boston, MA @ Great Scott #
04/08 – Philadelphia, PA @ Boot & Saddle #
04/10 – New York, NY @ The Dance #
04/11 – Washington, DC @ Songbyrd #
04/13 – Atlanta, GA @ 529 Club #
04/14 – Nashville, TN @ DRKMTTR #
04/15 – Columbia, MO @ Cafe Berlin #
04/16 – Lawrence, KS @ White Schoolhouse #
04/17 – Omaha, NE @ Reverb Lounge #
04/18 – Denver, CO @ Hi-Dive #
04/20 – San Diego, CA @ The Casbah #
04/21 – Los Angeles, CA @ Bootleg Bar #
04/22 – San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill #
04/24 – Seattle, WA @ Sunset Tavern #
04/25 – Portland, OR @ Bunk Bar #
04/26 – Vancouver, BC @ Wise Hall #
04/30 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry #
05/01 – Madison, WI @ UW Madison – Terrace #
05/02 – Milwaukee, WI @ Company Brewing #
05/03 – Chicago, IL @ Sleeping Village #
05/06 – Bristol, UK @ The Louisiana
05/07 – Manchester, UK @ YES
05/08 – Dublin, Ireland @ The Sound House
05/09 – Belfast, UK @ Cathedral Quarter Festival
05/10 – Glasgow, UK @ The Hug & Pint
05/12 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
05/13 – London, UK @ Oslo
05/15 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso – Upstairs
05/16 – Paris, France @ Le Pop-Up du Label
05/17 – Groningen, Netherlands @ Vera
05/18 – Leffinge, Belgium @ De Zwerver
05/19 – Düsseldorf, Germany @ Kassette
05/20 – Hamburg, Germany @ Turmzimmer
05/21 – Berlin, Germany @ Privatclub
05/22 – Munich, Germany @ Heppel & Ettlich
05/23 – Freiburg, Germany @ Swamp
# w/ Long Beard