Annie Bloch’s songs emerge from the urge to comprehend and wrap a passing and complex feeling into a form that can be looked at again and again. If they come out as a story, it’s fragmented - the romantizing fails, and the words don’t rhyme. Her sound is human, raw, and direct, not striving for perfection, but for utopia. Urgently it needs to feel light. Combining acoustic guitars, drums, and clarinets with electric guitars and colorful synthesizers that all weave gently around her warm voice, Annie Bloch creates an atmosphere of soothing comfort. A moment of lightness to gather strength before diving deep again - looking at the next ambivalences in the eye and getting loud where necessary. Despite some dreamy notes, her songs take the stage in the clear, dry daylight.

For her latest album, "I DEPEND," Annie Bloch teams up with a ten-piece ensemble that carries her vocals through raspy, rough terrain, letting the words bang on earth or embedding them softly in harmonies. It is neither an orchestra nor a big band or a mere extension of the pop band with acoustic instruments. It sets its own rules and lets the instruments perform at eye level.

After the self-release of her albums “Floors” (2019), Annie & Mo’s “When You Get Here” (2021) and her EP “Four Trips To The Shop” (Papercup Records, 2024), “I DEPEND” is the first album in this large vision.