Mega Mercy

by Any

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about

Downbeat, dreamy charm by Greco-Canadian debutee Any, coming outta nowhere with a quietly compelling blend of harps and ohrwurm hooks including co-production and chops by Klein/Lolina spar LA Timpa.

Listening to Breton music made on the Celtic harp from artists like Kristen Noguès and Alan Stivell, Any sketched out song outlines that were then tweaked by Lagos-born, Toronto-raised journeyman LA Timpa, who flew out to Crete last summer to put his idiosyncratic stamp on the record. Like the dusty songs on Astrid Sonne's 'Great Doubt, ‘MEGA MERCY' sounds as if its drum line was duped on dictaphone from an old beat tape, then spliced with field recordings and vocals.

Half sung, half spoken, she murmurs around the beat, not exactly over it, adding circuitous, boss-tuned harp twangs when necessary. It's music that's spartan rather than lo-fi; a sort of bare-bones reaction to electroacoustic experimentation and outsider folk. It makes perfect sense that an artist as thematically on-point as LA Timpa is involved - Any's instrumental vamps are roughly pasted around pinprick boom-bap snaps and crunchy foley denouements, eventually cooled into contemplative Nala Sinephro-esque meditations.

Sections bring to mind Tirzah's most psychedelic early excursions, with dry asides set against a slurping, off-axis beatbox loop and distant, barely-audible synths. The record is tied up on 'WEATHER LIKE TIDE', an instrumental callback to the opener, book-ending the album with a melancholy, humid kinda ambient folk, purposefully melting the timeline.

(Boomkat)

credits

released June 12, 2025

Harp, synth, vocals, lyrics, production by Any.
Additional instrumentation & production by LA Timpa.
Mixed & mastered by LA Timpa. Cut by Rashad Becker.
A3. All I Said Was Where co-produced by richard.
Photography by Devon Corman & Stéphanie Alèxe Hébert.
Art & design by Will Boyd.

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