Biography
Detroit singer/songwriter Anna Burch crafts airy melodies paired with incisive, emotionally forthright words. Her route to solo work first ran through folk-rock in the roots-oriented band Frontier Ruckus, then through noisy indie pop as co-leader of the four-piece Failed Flowers, before she issued her striking debut album Quit the Curse in 2018.
Burch’s artistic leanings surfaced early, sparked by Disney melodies in childhood and by Fiona Apple’s recordings in her teenage years. She sang the latter’s material at open-mike nights, and by age 18 she was already recording and touring with Frontier Ruckus. She later shared lead vocals in the Ann Arbor quartet Failed Flowers, where she also began writing original songs. After pausing music to attend graduate school in Chicago, she resumed songwriting in Detroit in 2014; the new pieces acquired clearer form, and scene friends urged her to assemble a band to play the demos.
Her first official release, an eponymous split single with Detroit artist Stef Chura, appeared in early 2016. By then comparisons to Waxahatchee and Courtney Barnett had surfaced, prompting Michigan musician Fred Thomas to send demos to Polyvinyl. Producer and engineer Collin Dupuis (Lana Del Rey, Angel Olsen) then mixed the tracks, resulting in the nine-song Quit the Curse, issued by Polyvinyl in early 2018. A split single with Thomas followed later that year during their joint tour. While supporting the album on the road, Burch continued writing and later recorded with producer Sam Evian at his home studio in New York’s Catskill Mountains. The resulting second album, the gentler and more isolated If You're Dreaming, was released in 2020.
Burch’s artistic leanings surfaced early, sparked by Disney melodies in childhood and by Fiona Apple’s recordings in her teenage years. She sang the latter’s material at open-mike nights, and by age 18 she was already recording and touring with Frontier Ruckus. She later shared lead vocals in the Ann Arbor quartet Failed Flowers, where she also began writing original songs. After pausing music to attend graduate school in Chicago, she resumed songwriting in Detroit in 2014; the new pieces acquired clearer form, and scene friends urged her to assemble a band to play the demos.
Her first official release, an eponymous split single with Detroit artist Stef Chura, appeared in early 2016. By then comparisons to Waxahatchee and Courtney Barnett had surfaced, prompting Michigan musician Fred Thomas to send demos to Polyvinyl. Producer and engineer Collin Dupuis (Lana Del Rey, Angel Olsen) then mixed the tracks, resulting in the nine-song Quit the Curse, issued by Polyvinyl in early 2018. A split single with Thomas followed later that year during their joint tour. While supporting the album on the road, Burch continued writing and later recorded with producer Sam Evian at his home studio in New York’s Catskill Mountains. The resulting second album, the gentler and more isolated If You're Dreaming, was released in 2020.
Albums
Singles
