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Anthem is a 2018 studio album by American vocal jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux. It has received positive reviews by critics.
Reception
Editors at AllMusic rated this album 3.5 out of 5 stars, with critic Matt Collar writing that "Anthem finds the former busker turned chanteuse collaborating with a team of highly regard musicians, arrangers, and songwriters" to make songs that "seem to speak to Peyroux's particularly Zen view of the world". Writing for The Arts Desk, Mark Kidel rated Anthem 4 out of 5 stars, telling readers that "if you happen to be feeling blue, this will music will speak to you, truly, deeply". In Glide Magazine, Jim Hynes called this album "a stunning example of collaboration producing an uncategorizable, enduring work of art".
Track listing
All songs written by David Baerwald, Larry Klein, Brian Macleod, Madeleine Peyroux, and Patrick Warren, except where noted.
"On My Own" – 4:06
"Down on Me" – 5:00
"Party Tyme" – 4:37
"Anthem" (Leonard Cohen) – 5:25
"All My Heroes" – 3:59
"On a Sunday Afternoon" – 4:17
"The Brand New Deal" – 4:57
"Lullaby" – 5:22
"Honey Party" – 4:01
"The Ghosts of Tomorrow" – 4:14
"We Might as Well Dance" – 3:17
"Liberté" (Paul Eluard) – 4:32
"Last Night When We Were Young" – 5:44
Personnel
Madeleine Peyroux – guitar, vocals, arrangements, artwork
Additional musicians
David Baerwald – electric guitar, nylon string guitar, shouts
Jay Bellerose – drums on "We Might as Well Dance", percussion on "We Might as Well Dance"
Gabe Burch – assistant engineering
Chris Cheek – baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone
Jivan Gasparyan – duduk
Clydene Jackson – backing vocals
Gabriel Johnson – trumpet
Larry Klein – bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, percussion, shouts, sounds, arrangements, production
Pete Kuzma – Hammond organ, shouts
Brian Macleod – drums, percussion, shouts
Grégoire Maret – bass harmonica, chromatic harmonica
Andy Martin – trombone
Dean Parks – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, hi string guitar, pedal steel, shouts
John "Scrapper" Sneider – trumpet, shouts
Luciana Souza – percussion, shaker, tambourine, triangle
Patrick Warren – dulcitone, harmonium, piano, Wurlitzer piano, shouts, string arrangements
Julia Waters – backing vocals
Maxine Waters – backing vocals
Technical personnel
Tchad Blake – mixing on all tracks except "Liberté"
Jeffrey Clayton – assistant engineering
Adam Greenspan – audio engineering
Bernie Grundman – audio mastering
Hadidja Mahamoud – project coordination
Mary Maurer – design
Geoff Neal – assistant engineering
Michael Lau Robles – design
Roderick Shearer – audio engineering, mixing on "Liberté"
Ivy Skoff – project coordination
Andy Taub – audio engineering
Charts
See also
2018 in American music
List of 2018 albums
References
External links
Official website
Anthem at Discogs (list of releases)
Anthem at MusicBrainz (list of releases)