{"id":110692,"date":"2021-04-28T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=110692"},"modified":"2021-04-28T09:09:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T14:09:26","slug":"anne-freeman-releases-a-music-video-featuring-oxford-locals-upcoming-album-on-muscle-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/anne-freeman-releases-a-music-video-featuring-oxford-locals-upcoming-album-on-muscle-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Freeman Releases a Music Video featuring Oxford Locals, Upcoming Album on Muscle Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Anne Freeman<\/strong> began writing her upcoming album after a lifelong study of dive bar crowds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although her brand of southern-laced indie rock earned her a following in her home state of <strong>Mississippi<\/strong>, Freeman knew from an adolescence of sneaking into venues during her older brother\u2019s set breaks that a great setlist requires variation. A constant rush of upbeat songs bleed together, but an entirely mellow set runs the risk of losing people around the bar, merch table, and smoker\u2019s alley.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Keep It Close<\/strong> <\/em>is far from just an exercise in crowd engagement, instead introducing a songwriter that captures millennial anxieties as deftly as she moves between power pop, heartland rock, and jangle pop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in a small town in the Mississippi Delta to a large musical family, Freeman viewed playing guitar and working on songs as a sort of eventual destiny. With the guidance of her brother and \u201860s rock n\u2019 roller of a father, Freeman eventually started playing out and moved to nearby<strong> Oxford<\/strong>,<strong> MIssissippi<\/strong>, to embed herself in the college town\u2019s vibrant music scene. She eventually caught the attention of Oxford-based label <strong>Muscle Beach<\/strong> (<strong>Kate Teague<\/strong>, <strong>Bass Drum of Death<\/strong>), who re-released her single <strong>\u201cDays Go By\u201d<\/strong> in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For her full-length debut with Muscle Beach, Freeman knew she wanted to lean more into her knack for writing timeless power pop hooks, but without sacrificing the unpolished, live recording style that defined her earlier recordings. Still, even she couldn\u2019t foresee <em>Keep It Close<\/em> would yield some of her most spontaneous, honest songs to date.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nezLWUQ8vr0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The bowling alley where we shot the &#8216;City Watched Me Burn&#8217; video is located in my hometown of Greenwood, Mississippi.&nbsp; It was built in 1961 and hasn\u2019t seen many renovations since.&nbsp; I grew up bowling there and knew it was the perfect location.&nbsp; It\u2019s been closed for several years now, but I was obsessed with making it happen, and convinced the owner to open it up to us for one night only.&nbsp; I got four of my best friends together and told them to just have fun and forget about the cameras.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p><em>Close<\/em>\u2019s in-your-face opener <strong>\u201cCity Watched Me Burn\u201d<\/strong> spilled out one hungover morning after a night out in <strong>Nashville <\/strong>worrying her peers had their lives more figured out than hers. The hook on <strong>\u201cI\u2019ve Got A Knife\u201d<\/strong> was pulled from a calming mantra Freeman sang to herself one night on a walk home alone. By the time she got home, she had one of the most euphoric songs about self-defense tactics fully written, later recorded in a single take out of fear that the studio\u2019s frozen pipes and gas heater would combust mid-session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even with a slightly frenzied behind-the-scenes process, <em>Keep It Close <\/em>acts as an assured survival guide to stumbling towards (and eventually finding) some stability as a twenty-something. Nowhere is this more felt than on <strong>\u201cWhen I\u2019m A Wreck,\u201d<\/strong> <em>Keep It Close<\/em>\u2019s centerpiece<em> <\/em>that tackles insecurities Freeman struggled with after getting married.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI feel very vulnerable sharing what goes on in my mind sometimes,\u201d Freeman adds. \u201cBeing lucky enough to have a person in my life that fully understands and loves me despite those inward struggles [is something] that I take for granted sometimes. I had to get over my fear of oversharing and write this one for my husband.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Keep It Close<\/em> is out on June 25 on <a href=\"https:\/\/musclebeachrecords.bandcamp.com\/artists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Muscle Beach Records<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anne Freeman began writing her upcoming album after a lifelong study of dive bar crowds. 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