Anna Wise, the frequent collaborator of Kendrick Lamar, has released her debut EP entitled The Feminine: Act 1.
The Grammy award winning Wise, who released the first single off her seven track effort back at the start of the year, has arrived with her trademark sultry vocals and hypnotic R&B production on a record which will serve as her first solo project.
The frontwoman to Brooklyn psych-pop duo Sonnymoon, Wise has recently become renowned for her work alongside rapper Kendrick Lamar. She first appeared on Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe and Money Trees, before lending her voice to Lamar’s opus To Pimp A Butterfly last year, with her work on These Walls winning her a much coveted Grammy award.
The first single to be taken from the EP was Bitchslut, before she released the hypnotic Precious Possession not long after. The second single was accompanied by a video directed by Emma Kanter. The track is about, “a bride who is drunk on desire and fades within her own fantasy,” according to Wise.
In a recent interview with Spin, Wise said that she was “super excited” about her upcoming debut before she revealed she also still had a “Mary Poppins bag of material” left to release.
“There is a theme of women on my solo record though. Women are great. We’re fucking great, and I want to talk about us. And talk about myself, because I’m a woman. I guess it’s kind of selfish. ‘Let’s talk about me!’”
The tracklist for the EP is below:
01 The Feminine
02 Precious Possession
03 How Would You Call a Dog?
04 BitchSlut
05 Decrease My Waist, Increase My Wage
06 Girl, Mother, Crone
07 Go
Watch the video to Precious Possession:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qYulS_IGLA
The Feminine: Act 1 is out now via Stem is available on Spotify.
Image: Billboard
Anna Wise, frequent Kendrick Lamar collaborator and one half of experimental indie electronica duo Sonnymoon, has dropped a sultry new video for her latest single Precious Possession. Her voice will probably sound familiar to Kendrick fans as she features on some of his biggest songs of the last few years including Money Trees, and the grammy-winning These Walls.
Precious Possession builds a stark contrast between her soft, feminine voice and a sharp hip-hop beat. This is also reflected in the video which shows her pouting and posing for the camera, her vintage-inspired baby pink dresses and floral patterns clashing with the dark, emotive lyrics. The lyrics seem somewhat sarcastic in their delivery – she has way too much sass to just be “his precious possession“.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qYulS_IGLA
This is the second video to be released from her forthcoming debut EP The Feminine Act:1. It follows BitchSlut, which explores the pressures and contradictions women face in their daily lives and “the damned if you do, damned if you don’t labyrinth of judgement.”
Wise says of the EP “The theme is ‘women.’ Women are great. We’re fucking great, and I want to talk about us. And talk about myself, because I’m a woman. I guess it’s kind of selfish. Let’s talk about me!”
Check out her Soundcloud to hear more from Anna Wise including a beautiful cover of Amy Winehouse‘s Me and Mr. Jones.
The Feminine Act: 1 will be released on the 27th of April
Image: Billboard