Ani DiFranco - Unprecedented Shit (col. ISE LP)

These days, every artist’s album needs to have a story. The music can’t speak for itself. But after 22 records, why can’t Ani DiFranco’s work speak for itself? Yes, her forthcoming album is shaped by stories — ones about reproductive freedom, the double-edged sword of the pandemic, identity and ever-evolving belief systems that have shaped each of its 11 songs. It was paramount to the folk-feminist hero that listeners not be saddled with preconceived notions while diving into her 23rd album Unprecedented Sh!t. “I believe there is a rhyme and a reason as to why these songs have come together in this way now and I want people to experience this album as a journey, a piece of art, without being influenced by a cacophony of surrounding narratives.”

Tracklist
01 Spinning Room
02 Virus
03 More or Less Free
04 Baby Roe
05 Unprecedented Sh!t
06 New Bible
07 Boots of a Soldier
08 You Forgot to Speak
09 The Thing At Hand
10 Interlude
11 The Knowing