Single out now: Anna Meredith "Dusky"

Anna Meredith will release her brand new studio album ‘DARLING’, on 12th February 2027 via Mercury KX. The eleven-track album marks Anna’s first studio album since 2019’s Mercury Prize-nominated ‘FIBS’, and is her most confident, communicative and euphoric body of work to date. The album will be available to stream and download digitally, as well as physically via CD, standard vinyl and limited edition double ‘Flumps Pink’ 12" vinyl, with the music split over three sides and an etching on side D. Pre-order the album here.

A highly acclaimed composer, producer and performer whose work moves freely between contemporary classical, electronic music, art pop, experimental rock and film and TV - Anna Meredith has spent the past decade building one of the most distinctive bodies of work in British music.

And now Anna has announced brand new album ‘DARLING’, where she explores a bolder and more expansive musical language, balancing the intricate detail of her compositions with a focus on the visceral across the eleven track album.

Full tracklisting for ‘DARLING’ by Anna Meredith is as follows:

1. Dusky

2. Mode Mouse

3. Last Words

4. Cry Baby

5. Lye

6. Underling

7. Mink

8. Rites

9. Aphid

10. 3019

11. Peach

Of the album, Anna says:

“‘DARLING’ is a channelling of intensity, energy and euphoria. This is me making music to summon motion, tension and release, to push through my brain and my body at a time when my own world (and the world in general) feels overwhelming. My aim was to create a unique experience ultimately for myself but also for those I'm bringing along on this journey with me. I wanted to lean into a technicolour version of what my music can be, reaching for higher highs and greater twists and turns, and letting it sit with more confidence than ever before. The tracks are longer, bolder, wilder and simpler than anything that appears on my previous albums. I've thought a lot about balancing the meticulous level of detail in dense and complex music with the intention to be open, crafting a conduit for energy and joy.”

In celebration of today’s announcement, Anna has released her brand new single and video - the first to come from the anticipated forthcoming album - ‘Dusky’, out now via Mercury KX.

Of the single, Anna says:

“I'm so proud of ‘Dusky’ and the ambition and manifesto it sets out for the album. In many ways it’s 4 tracks in one, with each stage of the journey inhabiting its own identity, whilst setting up the reveals and rug pulls of the sections to follow. It’s got loads of the things that I love writing - polyrhythms, parpy brass, metric modulations, waily synths. A lot of the music was written around my desire to build towards a heavy chugging metal electric guitar riff for my amazing guitarist Jack Ross, and to work out the best way to arrive at that moment so that it feels both entirely right and utterly unexpected. It makes me whoop with the joy and silliness of it every time.”

“Dusky is a track that really demands your attention (this is of course true of all of Anna's music!) but I think especially so with Dusky. In an ideal world I'd make a 7 minute theatrical production, with a legion of masked performers and some over the top set design that completely transforms every couple of minutes. This is the old man in a garden shed version of that. Obviously it's all thrown together in a computer but every element was handmade from plasticine or cut out with a scalpel and stuck on a stick and puppeteered by me. I’m hoping that people actually making stuff with their hands still garners some attention. (Insert comment about creativity, AI and state of the world).

The curtains and doors came from a chat with Anna, the idea that Dusky is a journey through portals into increasingly unexpected rooms. Just when you think you’ve reached the climax, you find yourself somewhere new. I added in the faces probably because I was visibly terrified of making a 7 minute visual accompaniment to an increasingly impossible track. I liked the idea of a different emotional state triggered by each section of the track.”

The end result is this theatrical game of peekaboo, hopefully fun and continuously surprising, and in the spirit of Dusky.”

Across a career spanning electronic music, contemporary classical and pop, Meredith has developed a distinct approach to composition, production, attracting much success and critical acclaim along the way.

Her music has been performed everywhere from the Hollywood Bowl and BBC Proms to clubs, festivals, concert halls and site-specific installations. After building a successful career as a classical composer (Composer in Residence for BBC SSO and commissions for the First Night and Last Night of the Proms), Anna expanded into writing with electronics for her band, installations & commercial work and was awarded an MBE for services to music in 2019. Alongside this, she is also a distinguished composer for TV and film. Her work includes scores for ‘Eighth Grade’, ‘Living With Yourself’, ‘The End We Start From’ and ‘TUESDAY’ and the score for upcoming feature film ‘Wicker’, starring Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård, set for release in UK cinemas after its premiere at the London Film Festival later this month.

Along with her recorded material, she has also developed an acclaimed live show with her band, with performances at venues including the Barbican, Queen Elizabeth Hall and EartH, as well as Glastonbury, SXSW and Big Ears.