Moshi Moshi presents Anna Meredith and her new song 'Honeyed Words'

Anna Meredith today debuts Honeyed Words, her first new song in two years, and a taster for her forthcoming full length debut, due next year on Moshi Moshi. The song is one of Anna’s most intimate tracks to date. A bittersweet duet between the warmth of solo cello and the detachment of constantly sliding electronics, evoking a landscape of decaying intimacy constantly searching for solid ground. The video for Honeyed Words was made by Laurène Pijulet-Balmer (aka PIJU), a French visual artist, illustrator and filmmaker based in London who has mirrored the duality of the cello and synths with bold, graphic, and colourful primary shapes versus pictures of minerals, crystals and natural landscapes. Honeyed Words is available to stream and download now.

Watch Honeyed Words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0sapcu7zsg

Already noted for her groundbreaking contemporary composition in the classical music sphere and regarded as one of Britain's leading young composers, Meredith has never been one to be confined by genre. Honeyed Words follows her acclaimed EPs, Black Prince Fury and Jet Black Raider. The former, led by the throbbing horn fanfare of Nautilus - one of Pitchfork’s top tracks of the year and the walk-on music for Foals at their live shows - is a set of lush psychedelia and slow build, downtempo electronica, and her first foray into entirely synthesised sound. The latter introduced acoustic instrumentation into the mix, melding alternating fearsome and tender electronics with characteristically off-kilter and forward thinking instrumental arrangements.

Praise for Black Prince Fury

• “Meredith utilises her obvious skills as an arranger to create dramatic, tension-filled nuggets” - The Guardian
• “Playful, spirited, visceral, and smart... dense, busy and isolated, but essentially fun” - Pitchfork
• “Nautlius is a great throb of dystopian brain freeze” - NME

Praise for Jet Black Raider

• “swirling, menacing electronica” - Sunday Times Culture
• “the extroverted impact and unserious charisma is admirable and rare” - Pitchfork
• “hugely impressive” - Clash

Aside from her EPs, and sharing bills with James Blake, Anna Calvi and These New Puritans, Meredith’s dizzying CV includes a piece written for MRI scanner, soundtracking PRADA”s Spring/Summer 2015 campaign, symphonies created for nursery children, music for park benches in Hong Kong and sleep-pods in Singapore. On one hand, she collaborated with Laura Marling and The Stranglers on intricate orchestral arrangements for the first 6Music Prom, on the other, her own Last Night of the Proms composition Froms simultaneously performed by five symphony orchestras across the UK, was broadcast to an audience of 40 million people (including a handful of flag-waving purists who felt compelled to send her hate mail). On even more hands – all 165 of the National Youth Orchestra’s, to be specific – her piece Handsfree, devised around the explosive clatter and thwack of body percussion, received rave reviews from it’s performances at Southbank Centre, Royal Albert Hall, Barbican Centre and even the M6 services. Honeyed Words, and her forthcoming long player, will take Anna Meredith and her music to even more unlikely destinations.