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Anhoni has announced a companion EP to her hugely acclaimed Hopelessness album called Paradise, while attacking President Trump for bringing on “ecocide” and “apocalypse.”
The six-track EP, featuring collaborations with Hudson Mohawke and Oneohtrix Point Never, is due out on March 17 via Secretly Canadian/Rough Trade. The title track was released online, featuring the ex Anthony And The Johnsons singer tackling the new world order with lines such as “Hopelessness seeps into the earth”.
Elsewhere on the EP she also criticises capitalists, oil companies, human slavers and God, and her poetic statement likens Trump’s intentions to a “holy war”.
“Our new leaders hope to crush our spirits and expedite ecocide in the name of virulent progress, consumerism and false security,” she wrote. “Like Jihadis, many capitalists and Christians compulsively seek to facilitate a righteous ‘holy war’, or apocalypse.
“For millennia, Men have enslaved women and attempted to appropriate female creative power, re-casting themselves as gods and creators,” she continued. “This assault continues today in the forms of ruthless wealth and mineral extraction, genetic engineering, mass surveillance and war mongering. But as Donald Trump and his cabinet now demonstrate, the skills encouraged in men by their biologies and the tools that boys master in the playground have not equipped them to deal with the unprecedented global crisis we are now facing."
The statement concluded: “Only an intervention by women around the world, with their innate knowledge of interdependency, deep listening, empathy and self-sacrifice, could possibly alter our species’ desperate course.”
The ‘Paradise’ EP tracklist is:
1. ‘In My Dreams’
2. ‘Paradise’
3. ‘Jesus Will Kill You’
4. ‘Enemy’
5. ‘Ricochet’
6. ‘She Doesn’t Mourn Her Loss’
