All of It, by Annie Blackman

All of It

by Annie Blackman

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Russ Isabella This is a terrific album that deserves a physical release (preferably vinyl)! Personal/intelligent lyrics, beautiful arrangements, and a voice that easily matches all of it. My favorite track changes each time I listen through the album, but I'll go with Glitch, a really catchy tune with incredible imagery "the shower turns my shoulders red...". Keep at it Annie! Favorite track: Glitch.

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1.	Why We Met 02:53	lyrics	buy track
You’re looking up And I’m looking at your neck Tilted back Clock the curvature The bottle starts to sweat You’re scared of leaving And I wonder why we met Lift the bottle to your lips and tilt it back Clock the curvature From your chin down to your chest You’d never tell me if you wonder why we met I don’t know how to love you I don’t know how to love you I don’t know how to love you, no Turn to face me Lift the bottle Tilt it back Almost ask you if you wonder then The moment’s passed Turn to face me Lift the bottle Tilt it back
2.	Glitch 03:14	lyrics	buy track
Tell the doctor I don’t smoke but That’s not exactly true I like to light the camel ones But just because I think the camel’s cute And that’s it I swear to god She can’t see my fingers crossed I’m holding them below the desk Plus audio is on but camera’s off Five dollars for the coffee One dollar for the tip Six bucks for milky water and I only take a couple sips And simulation theory Is religion for sociopaths I watched a doc, it really scared me I can’t get those 90 minutes back If we’re all 1’s and 0’s Why do I feel so blue? Who cares if it’s constructed I’d still die if I jumped off the roof The shower turns my shoulders red The Ativan takes off the edge I’m freaking out and fine again Again Pick apart the weekly panic Let the suffering unspool Progress is well and good But need my therapist to think I’m cool And be my lawyer’s favorite client Sweep the broker off his feet All I want’s approval from the people who I pay to talk to me Used to be a kid Careful, optimistic, pure I guess I’m still a kid but just acquainted with mortality some more Look in the mirror for A half an hour making sure There’s blood under my skin my head is spinning Then my cheek’s against the floor The shower turns my shoulders red The Ativan takes off the edge I’m freaking out and fine again Again The 1’s and 0’s itch my eyes A flaw in character design I’m such a clever story line to write At least I have the camel ones to light
3.	How 03:44	lyrics	buy track
I wanted you badly, I wanted you worse The ground could have opened for all that it’s worth The moon doesn’t move me, the sun doesn’t melt Another October in patio hell Call me crying please Beg me not to leave you now I'll sigh on the other line “I would but I don’t know how” All of it’s bitter, all of it hurts And I could have loved you for all that it’s worth Wanting it badly, wanting it bright There’s always tomorrow and Saturday night Call me crying please Beg me not to leave you know I’ll sigh on the other line “I would but I don’t know how” Somebody willing, somebody weak She’s letting you have her, she’s thinking of me Lean into lonely, lean into loss Like I could have loved you I swear to god Call me crying please Beg me not to leave you know I’ll sigh on the other line “I would but I don’t know how” Call me crying please Beg me not to leave you know I’ll sigh on the other line “I would but I don’t know how”
4.	Pickets 02:37	lyrics	buy track
Had a plan where you would visit Hop the fence with missing pickets Makes me sad but I don’t wish it now If I could write a better song then He’d come back from being gone God, it sounds romantic, but the logic’s fucking flawed Unencumbered on the train cause I know all the station names In order, but I’ll list them just to check Goes: Newark to Secaucus and You’re shoulder underneath my hand Man, I could have called it, panning out so bad again If you say sorry, I’ll ask what you mean How casual and cool of me Just the way I practiced but I’m chattering my teeth When I see you, say nice things And nod to show I’m listening Can’t predict the feeling but I bet I’ll be mixed up So gesture for a final light And state the stillness of the night Little lost and little gained when he goes back inside If you say sorry, I’ll ask what you mean How casual and cool of me Just the way I practiced but I’m chattering my teeth Or don’t say sorry, and we won’t discuss How casual and cool of us Like it even matters cause it’d never be enough
5.	Souvenir 02:45	lyrics	buy track
Here cause it feels alright I’ll forgive my body in your basement tonight Separately I’m struggling and standing at the sink I deserve whatever hurts I think Canonize his breath He can’t hear the snakes despite his head against my chest I’m the bathroom mirror I’m the walk back into bed And yes, I know exactly what comes next So have me again then Wow I don’t wanna get dressed It is what it is Soft and sweet and meaningless Don’t forget that I was here The soreness in my legs: a souvenir
6.	Drive 04:11	lyrics	buy track
I could move out west sometime but I’m afraid to drive And don’t take well to highways though it's fine I always find a ride But if it’s California Then I’ll walk the shoulder home Trekking through the roadkill All the motorists will think I’m stoned Make new friends with pools to swim in Come to vilify new women Look out at the audience And everybody’s here, so Could be California in a year or so Can’t sweat anything I never thought I’d get to do A city’s more than its proximity to you The answer’s there, I could know it if I tried Say you’re falling apart, well you know what so am I I could turn to God someday Put to work these knees and pray Eyeing my creator, in a towel from the bathroom floor If this is my repentance then it’s long been overdue Cause the “sinner thing”s not interesting if it won’t bring me close to you Jesus died so I could live and Smoke and cry and get forgiven Nothing short of sacrilege But mercy will be shown cause I could turn to god all on my own Can’t sweat anything I never thought I’d get to do A city’s more than its proximity to you The answer’s there, I could know it if I tried Say you’re falling apart, well you know what so am I Scared out of my mind Just for fun I've become someone who Walks around and mutters all the time Nervous, and no one’s fault but mine That I could move out west and find the sand and draw a line Move out west get better dressed be everything I like Could be California anytime Can’t sweat anything I never thought I’d get to do A city’s more than its proximity to you The answer’s there, I could know it if I tried But I won’t go cause I’m afraid to drive
7.	Glass House 04:22	lyrics	buy track
We can talk it out Come over I’m just a stone’s throw From your glass house Or leave it in the past Whatever you wanna do goes I learn fast But who’s to say that I got fucked A games a game and luck is luck I’m not a loser I’m a winner in a rut Then the line gets pretty thin between The ego and the self esteem If he thinks I’m duplicitous he’s right What’s a person? What’s a body? What’s the takeaway tonight? Can’t be sure If I’m bad and You’re bad then One of us is better Just laugh It’s good practice Punish me it’s funny when I’m small Or so I’m told Every other dream You get me in a corner Face close Bared teeth Not a lot to crack The symbolism’s thin At least I Have that Think of all the times that he Insisted he would die for me To satisfy a complex I can’t name A bullet aimed between my eyes A sideways slow-mo sort of dive He couldn’t be my martyr but we tried Oh Annie and the narrative They told him I would write How’d I do? If I’m bad And you’re bad Then one of us is better Just laugh It’s good practice Punish me it’s funny when I’m small Or so I’m told If I’m bad And you’re bad Then one of us is better Just laugh It’s good practice Punish me it’s funny when I’m small Or so I’m told
8.	Seeds 03:02	lyrics	buy track
I’d like you to apologize in cursive in between my thighs I know, you have, but now it’s not enough Forget I’m doing better than I was back when I said What I said and let it out Forget the bedspread, and the carpet, and the couch Cracked in half and let spill out the seeds I’m pretty sure you stained your fingers purple on me Yeah Tell me what’s to miss about the way I looked at you outloud and Waited ‘till the worst of us weighed in Comically redundant and there’s nothing to unpack Take it back and let it go Forget the lyrics, and the music, and the show Cracked in half and let spill out the seeds I’m pretty sure you stained your fingers purple on me Yeah
9.	Power 02:23	lyrics	buy track
Here take my power I’m handing it off to you Making it comfortable That’s what I said I’d do Is this easy? Are you still confused? And promise that you were just tired Ask you again, are you sure? Promise that you were just tired Right, no I get it, of course Make me your middle ground Only two days a week Keeping it comfortable So you get to pick when we speak Look I’m crying And you knew I would And promise that some of it counted All of a sudden I’m young Promise that some of it counted And that maybe I made you less numb Maybe I made you less numb Maybe I made you less numb
10.	Nothing Relents 01:24	lyrics	buy track
Played back the scene in a loop in a dream I knew when I saw it’d be hard, but I mean The cop at the crosswalk makes way for the hearse No matter who’s dead bet my morning’s been worse cause Nothing relents anymore Nothing relents anymore Spending the night somewhere else for a change I’m holding my breath to your house from the train I basically begged for it, practically pled You said you were joking, but I know you meant it cause Nothing relents anymore Nothing relents anymore Think I’ve outgrown this corporeal form Cause nothing relents Nothing relents Nothing relents Anymore

about

There’s a kind of necessary bloodletting that comes at the end of college—a moment of reckoning with the past before you decide to get on with the rest of your life. Maybe you move back home, stew it over while the big questions start to tug at you. Who am I, for now? And when will my life begin?

That peculiar vertigo—the pleasant confusion that comes with being young and unsure—is what colors Brooklyn, NY singer-songwriter Annie Blackman’s debut album, All of It. Born and raised in Montclair, New Jersey, Blackman spent her college years in the flatlands of central Ohio, at Kenyon College. The music takes cues from each of these psychic zones. She wrote “Power” on a twin XL in her freshman dorm, and “Glitch” less than two weeks after unpacking her first apartment in New York, five years later; “Pickets” and “Glass House” were the result of an isolated pandemic summer at her parents’ place in New Jersey. In these songs, characters stumble through panic attacks and casual hook-ups, suburban train rides and virtual doctor’s appointments. The drama unfolds in miniature, but Blackman raises the emotional stakes with sunset chord progressions and a tender sound.

Blackman’s lyrics are frank, diaristic, and often funny. The substance of “Glitch” came to her after watching a B-grade documentary about simulation theory, and the spontaneity of it shines through in Blackman’s conversational delivery. On “Glass House,” she muses about the inherent awkwardness of the creative process—the way a songwriter can end up mining relationships for inspiration. “Oh Annie and the narrative they warned him I would write,” she sighs. “How’d I do?”

She’s not entirely in her own head, either. Sharing drafted lyrics with friends is a crucial step in her writing process. “I mostly want to know when a lyric is corny,” she says. “Corniness is the greatest casualty of too much time spent inside a feeling.” That tendency toward self-criticism is all over the album, in knowing jokes and moments of real turmoil; at one point, she sings about wanting her therapist to think she’s cool.

A lesser writer might smudge the contours of these memories. But even when Blackman is teetering on the precipice of something vast and unknowable, grappling with the future and an evolving sense of self, she never lets the details fall out of focus. On “Pickets,” she lingers in the specifics of a vivid daydream romance (the exact course of the NJ Transit train ride with a crush, the position of her hand on his shoulder) before returning to a reality where things haven’t worked out quite so neatly.

You know these feelings, even if you don’t know these stories. As she works through her own struggles, Blackman speaks to universal commitments. Her wholehearted approach is the source of the music’s power—an expression of empathy and gratitude for the journey, but also a raw look at frustration: the kinds of inevitable sadnesses that accompany change.

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released April 8, 2022

Music & Lyrics by Annie Blackman
Produced & Mixed by Evan Rasch
Mastered by Carl Saff
Artwork by Jaime Knoth

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Annie Blackman Montclair, New Jersey

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Bug

Apr 2023
All of It

Apr 2022
How

Oct 2021
Glass House

Sep 2021
Glitch

Aug 2021
Seeds

Jun 2021
Souvenir

May 2021
Why We Met

Apr 2021
Wrong Again

Oct 2020
Laundry Room Songs

Apr 2017
Blue Green

Jun 2016

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