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A GENTLE FIRST GLIMPSE INTO YOU’RE FREE TO GO
North Carolina singer‑songwriter Anjimile announces his new album You’re Free to Go, arriving 13 March via 4AD. Alongside the announcement, he shares the lead single “Like You Really Mean It” with an accompanying video directed by Caity Arthur.
Speaking on the track, Anjimile explains its simple, tender origin: he wrote it hoping to earn a kiss from his girlfriend. Living an hour apart, he found himself alone, thinking about her — and about wanting that kiss. “What could I do to get a kiss from my sweetheart? Write a song about it. Anyway, it worked,” he says.
On “Like You Really Mean It,” Anjimile leans into a softer, slow‑burning intimacy. The track glows with warm acoustic lines and a quiet emotional precision, unfolding like a private moment caught on tape. His voice sits close to the ear — tender, unforced, and disarmingly direct — while the arrangement builds in gentle waves rather than big gestures. It’s a small song with a big ache, the kind that lingers long after the last note fades.
“Like You Really Mean It” follows November’s “Auld Lang Syne II”, a gentle letter to himself about resilience and freedom. That earlier single was originally intended as a wedding gift for his best friend.
Where his previous album The King leaned into complexity and layered arrangements, You’re Free to Go unfolds with a more organic touch under producer Brad Cook (Waxahatchee, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Mavis Staples). Warm acoustic guitars, soft synth textures, rich string arrangements and subtle rhythmic details shape the album’s sound.
Collaborations with Nathan Stocker (Hippo Campus), Matt McCaughan (Bon Iver) and guest vocalist Sam Beam (Iron & Wine) add depth and intimacy, perfectly complementing Anjimile’s storytelling voice.
‘You’re Free To Go’ tracklist
1. You’re Free to Go
2. Rust & Wire
3. Waits For Me
4. Like You Really Mean It
5. Turning Away
6. Exquisite Skeleton
7. The Store
8. Ready or Not
9. Point of View
10. Afarin
11. Destroying You
12. Enough
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