"Their debut album Anywhere was originally conceived in and around Des Moines, Iowa: a land where AOR rock and country blast out of car speakers on drives across desolate Rust Belt towns and vast Corn Belt farmlands. Jess Mai Walker and Joseph Ware's artistic and geographic origins seem like a far cry from this distinctly American form of vast nothingness."
"When Walker's powerfully delicate vocals whisper "let's go out" on the refrain to "My City"-the album's club-ready centerpiece-she's ostensibly talking about speeding past a club that's been abandoned for years rather than actually going out dancing, as she describes the distinctly Midwestern stimulations of "bleach and snow and gasoline" before calling "drive faster" as the track speeds to its finish line."
Jess Mai Walker and Joseph Ware conceived Anywhere in and around Des Moines, Iowa, drawing on AOR rock and country heard on long Midwestern drives. The album responds to aimless driving as a meditative, affective release and romanticizes motion across Rust Belt towns and Corn Belt farmlands. Midwestern driving culture trades a lack of special places for a ritual of drifting on wheels that cultivates a sacred, contemplative state. The track "My City" uses whispered vocals and evocative imagery like "bleach and snow and gasoline" to dramatize passing abandoned landmarks. Anywhere blends trance, downtempo, and ambient into a continuous mix that flows seamlessly between tracks.
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