Even More Mysterious than Before

Anna Atkinson’s New Single “No Part of Me Ever Dies”

Image used with permission of Anna Atkinson. Borrowed from Atkinson’s Bandcamp page.

Something about Anna Atkinson’s music haunts me. I’ve been saying that since the first time I interviewed her. Her newest single, “No Part of Me Ever Dies,” takes that mysteriousness to a whole new level.

It’s an interesting thing, really, because I’ve exchanged several emails with Atkinson (who releases this new song under the moniker of Linaire) now, and I get the feeling that not even she hears what I hear in her music. That’s probably to be expected, because I suck at explaining what I’m hearing. I suck at explaining it because I can’t quite understand it myself. So, you see my dilemma.

All I know is that there’s something in Atkinson’s music that sticks me with long after I hear it. Like a fleeting memory from a meditation vision or an astral scrap snatched from the fringes of an out-of-body experience, something about it always seems split between two worlds.

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