February 6, 2019 video: Anna Of The North – Leaning On Myself

Oslo’s Anna Of The North returns with a happy/sad and liberating new single/video, the first since her excellent LP Lovers, one of our favorite records of 2017. Anna says this of the song:

“I’ve been writing a lot of music the past year. “Leaning On Myself” is one of the songs that came out of it, maybe one of my favourite songs. I remember flying home from the States where we wrote it and I started crying. I kind of realized I’d written the soundtrack of my life one year ago. There was a point in where I went through a lot of shit and I wasn’t feeling very well. I had one big break down where I called my mom and just knew I had to change my ways. I had to cut some people out of my life, people I loved but I knew weren’t really good for me. It was tough. But I’m good now. Every time I listen to this song it takes me back to that moment. It’s fucking sad but also powerful. I’m very grateful for where I am today. In the end you only have yourself, you know, and I guess that’s ok.” 

Listen/watch the surreal Noah Lee-directed video below, download “Leaning On Myself” here + look our for Anna on her debut U.S. tour beginning in April.