Take my place
Walk the wire
Solid base
You are the next in line
Go forward
Times are strange 
Escalate
It takes a village to bring change

Please just
Make an attempt to
Reconstruct
Just look at our conduct
It’s all mixed up
Make an attempt to
Redefine
Our motive and model
It’s fixed in time

Take my place
Walk the wire (’Til it ends)
Solid base
You are the next in line
Go forward
Times are strange (It’s evident)
Escalate
It takes a village to bring change

Wake to my surprise
We recreated it but only for a short while
Knowledge intertwined
All of our efforts combined
Wake to my surprise
We recreated it but only for a short while
Knowledge intertwined
All of our efforts combined

Take my place
Walk the wire (Walk the wire)
Solid base
I know, I know, you’re capable
So why don’t you just go forward
Times, they are strange (It’s evident)
Escalate
It takes, it takes, it takes

Go forward
Times, they are strange
Escalate
It takes a village to bring change

Take My Place

Veering from their typical proggy and stylistic tendencies, Annapurna offers a fresh sound with their latest, "Good Back & Forth". Forged in the fields of the Midwest and garnished with a touch of Southern drawl, the sole focus of this tune lies at the heart of America's only native spirit, Bourbon Whiskey. It is a driving and descriptive notation of not only the process through which the refined distillate is conjured, but also of the communal cohesion it can inspire.

Good Back & Forth

“After almost a year of self-inflicted introspection and reflection, the Louisville, KY indie prog quartet Annapurna has emerged from their sonic hibernation with an arsenal of new sounds. A glimpse of this can be caught in their brand new single, “Lovely”. Whereas their debut release “The Greater Good” had a solemn, introverted theme, this new composition embodies the direction and energy the band has seemed to harness in their time away. They have imparted a sense of light-heartedness to their sound: embellished with airy synths, electronic pads, and harmonious quandaries while still bound to their progressive backbone.

From a conceptual angle, “Lovely” keys in on the beneficial rewards that can be reaped through the collaborative process. No matter the medium, a sense of accomplishment and wonderment can be drawn from creating with other souls. It is in that collective consciousness where previously hidden anecdotal truths can be exposed, gathered, and applied. From what it seems, Annapurna has a new path carved out: one intent on spreading positivity and illuminating the good embedded in our human nature. As they plot the release of a new collective of music, one thing is clear, they plan to ‘Make It Lovely’.”

Lovely - Single

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Produced by: Gregory James & Jordan Haynes
Mixed & Mastered by: Jordan Haynes
All songs written by: Annapurna
Visuals by: Gregory James

Linden Hill

Tall Order

Hell, There Could Be Worse

Good Luck With That

Lovely

Listenin’ in to our words
Caught in the act, for what we’ve done
We’ve cut up the map and unveiled sinister plans
But still we’re lost

Hidden away and locked tight
Deep in a vault with no light
(Secrets are unearthed as we grow)
Open to see in plain sight
Ritual, spell, and cold knife
(Who is watching over?)

Be on your best behavior
Be on your best behavior

Steadily gatherin’ data
Soon enough they will upload me
Into an artificial simulation of selfless ease

No longer feel the cool breeze
Couldn’t even if we please
(What's become? Our future’s thinning out)
Out of tunnel of pure light
Comes a reminder to stay bright

Be on your best behavior
Be on your best behavior

Don't sell your right just for a taste
Of mystic wine
We've gotta fight
Lift up the veil, show up on time
Don't sell your right just for a taste
Of mystic wine
We've gotta fight
Lift up the veil, show up on time

Vallonia

The last decade has seen a generational coming of age in the world of heavy music: it seems that the metalcore enthusiasts, doom-stoners, and screamo scenesters of the late aughts all find common ground in their mellowing out. A background in loud music isn’t all the four members of Annapurna share though: Greg Hojnacki and his bandmates (from all over the flyover states) found their home in Louisville, KY, which has served as the metaphorical and actual soil for Annapurna to cultivate their aesthetic self-actualization. After their quiet genesis as an acoustic trio in 2015, the band has fleshed out their skeleton crew with drums and dropped their debut LP, “The Greater Good” in July of 2018. 

Annapurna’s distinctive aura is a product of meticulously harrowed influences, elevated by an almost spiritual polyphony. Alternately tuned guitar chords cascade over each other in clustered 7ths, an improbable acoustic snaking its copper-wound tendrils around Hojnacki’s purposeful melodies in a blend of effortless harmony and sharp counterpoint. Never has a group so fluently combined the djenty mathematics of Chon with the ethereal nakedness of a Copeland track as the band does on their first single, “Henna,” which received great attention on 91.9 WFPK.

Annapurna is something like Minus the Bear and Intervals having a love child and baptizing it in the Ohio River. It is a distinctly midwestern and immaculately complex blend, interpolated in a nuanced take that stands up to repeated listens. Shouldering the emotional weight of growth through struggle, in art and life, is the seal Annapurna carries on their lips: somewhere in the rests between those melodic breakdowns, you’ll find little seeds. Those seeds are hope.

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