Anastasia Coope Is Cementing Time With Music
On the heels of her new single, "Woke Up and No Feet," the singer and painter invites us into her studio to talk about her songwriting, the physicality of recording music, and straddling everything at once.
By Saoirse Bertram
Photos by Louisa Tantillo
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Grey-sky day in the city; I take the slow train to Brooklyn and wander through Fort Greene Park, a bright-eyed song playing through my headphones. It’s important to immerse yourself in the work of a great artist before encountering them, I believe, to steep into the same plane of being; and besides, I love the track. The song is “He is On His Way Home, We Don’t Live Together”; the artist I am to interview is the talented Anastasia Coope.
Her new album is imminent, but at this time, the first single contents me, imbuing the grey Brooklyn scene with a welcome brightness, sheltering me from the foul looks of the passers-by. The pedestrians all seem like they’re running late. I am too—hurriedly, I skip into the labyrinth of the Pratt campus and make my way to Coope’s studio, where her paintings recline and climb over the walls and floor, pleasantly charged and charming paintings, I think; like her music, they edify the space surrounding and make it something of their own.
Today, Anastasia Coope shares her second single “Woke Up and No Feet” off her forthcoming debut album, Darning Woman, out May 31, 2024 via Jagjaguwar.