Anxiety

Anxiety is the full-length follow up to Autre Ne Veut?s 2010 self-titled debut, which was for many the definitive post-millennial Failure Pop||statement outside of time and style. Autre Ne Veut rivaled other lovelorn "missteps" such as Marvin Gaye?s Here My Dear and Big Star?s Sister Lovers. If you didn't hear the connection, you weren't listening closely enough. The influences on Anxiety range from David Byrne to Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Laurie Anderson and Annie Lennox to Katy Perry and Rihanna. But Arthur?s primary influence - and the influence most evident in his music - is of karaoke- the solitary person singing along with their favorite song. In karaoke we get to be someone bigger than who we usually are. When we sing karaoke or when we sing in the shower, we get to be gods