Anastasia Coope - Darning Woman *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 31st May 2024
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that date.

Darning Woman is an intentional, beautiful,
sometimes confrontational album that shreds
expectations of DIY, bedroom music, and feminine
themes. There’s a lushness and maternal instinct at play,
as Coope connects the dots between physicality,
ephemera, and the ultrafeminine.
“I don’t really like to deal that much with themes of
personal hardships, or heartache and love,” says
Anastasia Coope. “Ultimately, I work most honestly
with the language of what is happening in a moment and
the passage of time around it. That, coupled with my
reaction to entering the artistic landscape, and my
thoughts about what does and doesn’t get
representation, comprises most of this album.”
Darning Woman explores, among other things, the
meditative aspect of sewing, patching and
embellishment, care and repair, collection not as
modern, craven consumption but as a counterpoint to
materialism. This sort of collection – the good kind, the
gathering of things to make a home – can be, in Coope’s
words, “A very baby way to critique capitalism. Birds
make nests, right? It can be a new life for a thing that
was made. What you surround yourself with matters.”
To that end, Anastasia Coope is also the founder and
leader of the Bonzo collective and show series, an
exciting new home for the type of expansive,
profoundly creative scene that New York has been
missing for some time. And while Bonzo may well be
the ascent of a new community, Darning Woman is the
story of Anastasia Coope, herself. It is the sound of
Coope entering the world as an artist, acknowledging
the tangle of what changes – the gaze of the world,
Coope’s art in reaction and community to art in general
– and what does not: her ideas and her own self.

TRACKS
SIDE A
1. He is On His Way Home,
We Don't Live Together
2. Women's Role in War
3. What Doesn’t Work What
Does
4. Darning Woman
5. Sounds of a Giddy Woman
SIDE B
1. Woke Up and No Feet
2. Sorghum
3. Newbin Time
4. Return to Room

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