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Release Date Friday 1st May 2026
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
"I wanted to travel / Home into somewhere,"Ana Roxanne breathes across an eerie suspended drone on
"The Age of Innocence". "I wanted to try / And go very far." These are the first words we hear on Poem 1
and reintroduce an artist who's in a conspicuously different phase of her life than she was when her debut
album, Because of a Flower, sprouted nearly six years ago.
Heartbroken and reflective, Roxanne surveys the transformations that followed and displays a new-found
boldness. Her voice is naked, vulnerable and alive, no longer shrouded in tape noise or looped and echoed
beyond recognition beneath layered electroacoustic textures.
Throughout the course of Poem 1, Roxanne displays her skill as a singer and songwriter in the classic
sense, using the limited instrumentation simply to accent her exposed tones. Muted piano phrases and
plucked bass notes languidly trail her anguished siren song on "Berceuse in A-flat Minor, Op. 45", making
each word count.
On "Keepsake" meanwhile, she sounds as if she's alone in an abandoned bar, stroking the dust off the
piano's keys as she inventories her emotional scars. There's a smell of old whisky in the air, but Poem 1 is a
remarkably sober album; never wallowing in self pity, Roxanne finds catharsis in the logic of her expressions,
twisting out the edges of her memories into surreal, cinematic asides. "Untitled II", the album's pronounced,
uninhibited centerpiece, delivers on the Lynchian promise that's been present since her first EP, 2019's ~~~.
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And when she interprets the Robert Schumann's lied "Stille Tränen" on "One Shall Sleep", she turns Justinus
Kerner's words into a whispered echo of her own grief, narrating the 19th century poem over syrupy
synthesizers and strings. There's a light emerging on the horizon, though; burying her past on the choral
standout '"Cover Me", Roxanne shifts the pace and the mood on 'Atonement', lifting her voice into a gentle
lilt.
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