The Cliff is Anna May's anticipated follow up single to her latest release, Elegy.

"Written from the precarious juncture of dreams & reality .. here is my newest single, The Cliff. 

The Cliff is asking .. what is it like to reach the precipice & to then fall down? Our human journey is to never remain in one fixed state. We are destined to traverse every state & emotion. This question is universal & laden with metaphor .. This question is life itself.

This song is euphoria, acceptance, frustration, regret, longing, bitterness & envisioning, traversing the unknowns surrounding cliffs.

Cliffs can symbolize so much : dissatisfaction, sensationalism, hysteria, shock, peace, & the stuff of lore. We are forever clinging, grasping, savoring & ultimately, letting go. We are perpetually between living and dying - what we do know and what we don’t know; bored with the familiar, yet terrified by the abyss.

Someone once told me, before our parting, that everything is uncertainty. In the song itself, it is unclear whether or not you will fall off the cliff. Each song that I've been writing has a different expression of the same experience. 

The Cliff is early 2000s pop meets 50s doo wop, and a bit Pink Floyd meets Elliot Smith with a tinge of country. I wanted the departure to the chorus to be mysterious and anticlimactic, as if to sound like something falling, or suspended in time. I wanted to remember the depth of the darkness that he took me to, and for listeners to feel every word.

I had the melody ideas percolating for The Cliff long before I released Elegy, but the song was not fully formed & recorded until later.

Sometimes, it happens in the early germination of a song being born, that we know exactly where we want everything to fall. Nothing is nebulous & everything about the song’s trajectory is known in the early stages of creation.

The imagery & metaphor of The Cliff have been sitting with me for a long while & I am eager to share"

Elegy was premiered by V13 Media and has been featured by Ones to Watch, Ditty TV, Americana UK, Paul Dettmann, Grateful Web, Dreamgaze Overtone on KXFM, Tinnitist, Out the Box Music, Soundsplore, BFF.FM, The Listen Local Show in San Diego, The Boston Chris Show, indie B & B podcast & Country and Northeastern on WERU.

Anna has opened for artists like Kacy Hill, Amythyst Kiah, The Arcadian Wild, People Museum, Jann Klose, Altan, The Michigan Rattlers, Kyran Daniel, and Jacob Jolliff and has performed at Wildflower! Music and Arts Festival, Treefort Music Festival, Whole Earth Festival, and the prestigious Art of Elan series at San Diego's Central Library. 

Anna was nominated for best Indie song of 2023 by Indie Boulevard Magazine, and her song The Show was KUTX's song of the day in August 2024. 

She has been a featured guest on NPR's Great American Folk Show, WKU PBS Lost River Sessions & was nominated for Best Americana Act at the New England Music Awards in 2024. Anna was recently featured on the WDVX Blue Plate Special, and We Found New Music Showcase.

New Music From Kilough, Jessica Woodlee, Riley Wells, Alexis Bleu, SARIKA, Julia Adrian, Andie Mechanic, Anna May, Gracie Modean, Aysha Luzia, and JØRDYN

"I Know You're Listening" - by Kilough

Release Date: August 2, 2024

What You Should Know: Another fantastic song from this artist.

Find It: Everywhere, like Apple or Spotify

Previous Noteworthy Releases: "States Between"

Her Spotify Playlist Inclusions: "What 2024 Sounds Like From Section 36", "Women Going Places, from Section 36"

Previously on Section 36: "Kilough Visits Section 36 Music!"

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"Jess" - by Jessica Woodlee

Release Date - August 16, 2024

What You Should Know: "This album has been years in the making and I’m so glad that it’s finally yours."

Find It: Everywhere, like  Apple or Spotify

Previous Noteworthy Releases: "Rainy Day", "Dude", "Whiskey", "By Now", "Dairy Aisle"

Her Spotify Playlist Inclusions: "What 2024 Sounds Like From Section 36", "What 2023 Sounds Like From Section 36", "Women Going Places, from Section 36"

Previously on Section 36: "Jessica Woodlee Visits Section 36 Music!"

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"heaven is a kiss" - by Riley Wells

Release Date - August 9, 2024

What You Should Know: Another wonderful addition to her must-listen music catalog

Find It: Everywhere, like  Apple or Spotify

Previous Noteworthy Releases: "Lilith", "I Am"

Her Spotify Playlist Inclusions: "What 2024 Sounds Like From Section 36", "Women Going Places, from Section 36"

Previously on Section 36: "Riley Wells Visits Section 36 Music!"

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"Self Sabatoge" - by Alexis Bleu

Release Date - Aug 16, 2024

What You Should Know: "Self Sabotage is a new sound for me, and I love it! I hope you guys love it too"

Find It: Everywhere, like  Apple or Spotify

Her Spotify Playlist Inclusions: "What 2024 Sounds Like From Section 36", "Women Going Places, from Section 36"

Previously on Section 36: "Alexis Bleu Visits Section 36 Music!"

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"From Inside the House" - by SARIKA

Release Date: August 16, 2024

What You Should Know: "this song is a diss track about the person who bullied you in high school meanwhile their instagram bio is “always be kind❣️”… the most selfish person you’ve ever met who’s always saying they need to start putting themselves first... a performative hypocrite who is constantly preaching and rarely self reflecting. someone’s gotta tell them they’re the villain bc you know their therapist isn’t going to!!"

Find It: Everywhere, like Apple or Spotify

Her Spotify Playlist Inclusions: "What 2024 Sounds Like From Section 36", "Women Going Places, from Section 36"

Previously on Section 36: "SARIKA Visits Section 36 Music!"

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"Potential" - by Julia Adrian

Release Date: August 30, 2024

What You Should Know: "it’s potentially my favorite song I’ve created so far and I am very excited for you to hear it"

Find It: Everywhere, like Apple or Spotify

Her Spotify Playlist Inclusions: "What 2024 Sounds Like From Section 36", "Women Going Places, from Section 36"

Previously on Section 36: "Julia Adrian Visits Section 36 Music!"

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"Boys" - by Andie Mechanic

Release Date: August 30, 2024

What You Should Know: "I’ve been avoiding men like the plagues of Egypt since I was probably 13 years old. The lengths I went to to not have to touch one genuinely astounds me to this day.

As the story goes, in 2022 I got ma-ha-ssively drunk and stoned with my brothers before going to Fenway Park for a baseball game. We were walking through the stadium when I randomly started freaking the literal fuck out, so I ran to the bathroom to hide. Then I pulled up my phone and just started typing.

That’s when I realized what I had been doing my entire life."

Find It: Everywhere, like Apple or Spotify

Her Spotify Playlist Inclusions: "What 2024 Sounds Like From Section 36", "Women Going Places, from Section 36"

Previously on Section 36: "Andie Mechanic Visits Section 36 Music!"

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"The Show" - by Anna May

Release Date: August 26, 2024

What You Should Know: "I am performing September 7 in Brookline at Village Social Cocktail Club"

Find It: Everywhere, like Bandcamp

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"Roof" - by Gracie Modean

Release Date: September 6, 2024

What You Should Know: "This first single from Gracie is definitely one you won't want to miss!"

Find It: Everywhere, like Apple or Spotify

Her Spotify Playlist Inclusions: "What 2024 Sounds Like From Section 36", "Women Going Places, from Section 36"

Previously on Section 36: "Gracie Modean Visits Section 36 Music!"

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"Cocaine Kiss" - by Aysha Luzia

Release Date: September 6, 2024

What You Should Know: "Ahhhhhh I’m so excited to FINALLY announce my debut single Cocaine Kiss out September 6th!!!!
So much blood, sweat, and tears in the project!"

Find It: Everywhere, like Apple or Spotify

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"Wake Up (not quite a woman)" - by JØRDYN

Release Date: September 6, 2024

What You Should Know: "Another amazing song from this artist"

Find It: Everywhere, like Apple or Spotify

Her Spotify Playlist Inclusions: "What 2024 Sounds Like From Section 36", "Women Going Places, from Section 36"

Previously on Section 36: "JØRDYN Visits Section 36 Music!"

The Night Calls by Anna May

 

"The Night Calls" - Single by Anna May

Release Date: October 31, 2023

What You Should Know: "I never intended to record this. It was a spontaneous one take that I grew to love. I wrote the song in February 2019 during a snowstorm, feeling a little stuck and feeling a little primitive and distant from myself. I explored the painful and convoluted processes of confronting and deceiving and distracting myself - the clarity and cloudiness, the oaths and promises to ourselves, which all come in the course of healing. I explored how I used the night as a shadowy catalyst for both distracting myself and and bringing out deeper parts of myself : both the veils of illusion and crystal truths that are born of the night and the near constant process of submerging and resurfacing that takes place each day.

I had been reflecting on the past, on future possibilities, and on my volatile relationship with the nighttime and darkness. We all have one. Night is a significant span of every one of our days, and each of us uses it in different ways.

Some of us tune it out, and others embrace our proximity to darkness. I'm reminded of the ways in which I let old ghosts come to visit me and I am reminded that most of life is more cryptic than it is clear.

This song has evolved over time in all of the best ways.
I am happy that i waited this long to record and release it so that it could become what it is now, fully realized.

Like humans, songs need space and time for growing into themselves. This one is filled with tension, hope, frustration and idealism, and it still takes me down new pathways when i hear it. It is a song for transitional times, as we slip into something new, remember all that was and consider all that calls us in various directions throughout our lifetimes; how we end up where we do.

We learn many lessons from our mistakes. I hope that you enjoy it. i never realized, but it is a perfect Halloween song, designed to explore the depths of existing. Perfect for immersing in the complexity and shifting identities of this season. Halloween is sacred and intentioned revelry related to death and reminds us that death and darkness are inextricable aspects of being."

Find It: On Bandcamp