Vanessa Anne Redd
Vanessa Anne Redd’s is launching her third album. “Sweet Way Around”. Over the course of her three solo albums, Behind The Wall (2016), Zumbo Waxes (2019), and the forthcoming Sweet Way Around, London-based, German/British singer-songwriter and producer Vanessa Anne Redd has mastered her own very distinctive and irreplicable sound. Redd‘s music is one of enticing, often contradictory, intricacies. It’s playful yet serious, pastoral yet at times garage rock-tinged, vulnerable but strong, gentle but driven, lush and melodic but with jagged edges, and both languorous and fierce. It’s also wonderfully childlike, in the simpler melodies but mostly in Redd’s sweet unembellished voice, yet also simultaneously swaggering and seductive. Comparisons have been raised to PJ Harvey, Leonard Cohen, Angel Olsen, Holly Golightly, Regina Spektor, Hunky-Dory-era Bowie and 1970s Scott Walker. Redd’s talent is in recalling many greats whilst musically creating something unique, propelling her into what Loud & Quiet has referred to as the “singer-songwriter premier league.”
“Vanessa Anne Redd has assembled what can easily stand amongst the best singer-songwriter albums of the year” – Loud & Quiet
“Vanessa Anne Redd is a crafty and artful songwriter” – Songwriting magazine
“Bold stark songwriting” – Clash Magazine