Annie Hart

Hailing from Long Island, Annie Hart constitutes one third of the atmospheric and stripped-down keyboard ensemble Au Revoir Simone. On her own she produces shadowy homemade electronic pop. The group's onscreen appearance during the 2017 return of Twin Peaks spurred the arrival of her first solo project, Impossible Accomplice. Her 2023 album The Weight of a Wave then amplified the somber post-punk currents already present in that debut.

Au Revoir Simone, whose members are Annie Hart, Erika Forster, and Heather D'Angelo, issued four albums across a decade that began with 2006's Verses of Comfort, Assurance & Salvation and thereby won the admiration of director David Lynch. He placed the trio onscreen in two episodes of the show's renewed third season, where they performed "Lark" and "A Violent Yet Flammable World," both drawn from their 2007 album The Bird of Music. In the same month as the second episode aired, Hart issued her solo debut Impossible Accomplice in July 2017 on the arts collective Uninhabitable Mansions. The leaner and more melancholic self-released A Softer Offering appeared in 2019, followed shortly by her wavy soundtrack for the teen comedy Banana Split, which mixed songs with prominent keyboard score passages. Orindal Records released her keyboard-instrumental EP Everything Pale Blue in May 2021.

The overcast, punk-damaged synth pop and brooding keyboard balladry of her first album resurfaced in reinforced, more energized form on August 2023's The Weight of a Wave, again through Uninhabitable Mansions.