Check out Little Anchor — coming soon to an East Coast city near you!
Check out Little Anchor — coming soon to an East Coast city near you!
Brooklyn-based indie pop four-piece Little Anchor announce their Yellow Lights fall tour dates:
Sun 9 Oct 2011 / Sweet Tea Pumpkin Pie Festival, Fuzzy Logic Showcase / The Islander / Washington, D.C. / 3pm / FREE!
Thu 13 Oct 2011 / The Fire / Philadelphia, PA / 9pm / $7
Fri 14 Oct 2011 / The Garage / Charlottesville, VA / 8pm
Sat 15 Oct 2011 / SuluDC October Show / Artisphere Ballroom / Arlington, VA / 8:30pm / $10
Sat 22 Oct 2011 / FeelingAnxious PR & GaluminumFoil Productions CMJ Showcase/ The Rock Shop / Brooklyn, NY / 7pm / $5
Congrats to Little Anchor on the release of their Yellow Lights EP today! Check them out tomorrow (9/7) in Brooklyn at Glasslands for their EP release show!
Brooklyn-based four-piece Little Anchor blends the storytelling and simplicity of the Northwest with New York influenced pop sensibility. They will digitally release the Yellow Lights EP on September 6, 2011. Limited edition 12” 45rpm vinyl with hand-drawn artwork by Barclay Douglas will be released at the Yellow Lights EP Release Party, TBA.
Little Anchor was initially conceived over a long weekend in a cabin on the Columbia River Gorge as the solo project of Pacific Northwest native, Alexa Cabellon in May 2009. Upon her return to New York, the small front-woman with big ideas shared her material with friends and former NYU classmates Kendrick Lo (guitar), Thomas White (bassist), and Ian Chang (percussion), who now complete the group.
Yellow Lights – a reference to the reflective moments held within each track that serve as reminders to slow down – showcases Cabellon’s smoothly rich voice amid a collection of songs that vary from the smart, rhythm heavy opening track, “Don’t Be Scared to Move,” which includes pots and pans recorded in the kitchen of Cabellon’s Brooklyn apartment, to her strength as a ballad songwriter in the lush and dreamy arrangements of “A Sentimental Way” and “SEA/MD,” to the hard-hitting, anthemic closing track, “When You’re Looking.”
The hauntingly delicate first single off of Yellow Lights, “Until Our Eyes Adjust” was released in February and features four-part string arrangements written by Gabriel Gall and Ian Davis of The Relatives and performed by fellow NYU classmates Josh Henderson on violin and viola, and Kristine Kruta on cello.