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Four Corners

by Anika Pyle

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1.
Arizona 04:26
Where did the love go, baby? Did we leave it in Arizona? Where did the love go, baby? Can’t accept that this is over I don’t wanna fall in love again I’m tired of losing all my dearest friends Driving down this desert road Stretching straight to Mexico Tom Petty on the radio Hand out the window Stopped to rest my weary soul In the nation of the Navajo Where two rivers find a single flow The sky a sacred glow Where did the love go, baby? Did we leave it in Arizona? Where did the love go, baby? Can’t accept that this is over I don’t’ wanna fall in love again I’m tired of losing all my dearest friends They say the truth will follow you No matter where you run There’s nothing you or I could do To stop a setting sun Where did the love go, baby? Did we leave it in Arizona? Where did the love go, baby? Can’t accept that this is over I don’t’ wanna fall in love again I’m tired of losing all my dearest friends
2.
Hair as black as onyx Dress like falling rain Little silver bells Lips a berry stain They asked you. “What is courage?” You said “A steady gaze When all the world is Burning and you want To look away” Ordinary people do extraordinary things Diné Utah homecoming queen Your papa was an Indian A stoic Navajo They took away his language They couldn’t take his soul The father With this dancing Brings the daughter Back around Seems you were his Savior when he Saw you take the crown Ordinary people do extraordinary things Diné Utah homecoming queen Shimmer in the limelight Healing under foot Dance for those who couldn’t Dance for those should They asked you, “What is honor?” You said, “A steady beat. When all the world is silent, Be the change you want to see” Ordinary people do extraordinary things Diné Utah homecoming queen
3.
Since you’ve gone the rose no longer blooms The moon has lost its luster and its shine All day I sing the Silver City blues At least I can still dream of you at night The weeping willow hears my steady strum To call you back to me and make it right The day I’m yearning for will never come At least I can still dream of you at night The lonely coyote sings his weary song The wind alone can hear his prairie plight It seems our love was just a setting sun At least I can still dream of you at night
4.
My daddy was a carpenter My mama was a maid They moved us to a hollow house 1990 New Years Day Had a barn out in the back And a garden in the front As long as we agreed to make repairs they’d Only charge 100 bucks a month So my mama got to painting She hung the curtains up My daddy built a whole ‘nother room Just for letting in the sun We couldn’t keep the critters out The heat it wouldn’t stay In the winter you could trace tiny hearts on The inside of my frozen window pane I knew I was a poor little girl I could hear the things they say But I felt rich, wild, and free Running through the fields of Colorado sage

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"Anika Pyle has come a long way since the days of her beloved indie-pop punk band Chumped, and Four Corners is one of her most exciting new journeys yet. It’s just four songs, but it feels like a pivotal release, both sonically and thematically. Four Corners finds Anika veering towards the indie-country of recent Waxahatchee, Wednesday, Big Thief, Angel Olsen, Ratboys, etc records, and this direction suits her really well.

Each song of the EP takes place in one of the Four Corners states–Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah–and each one tells an impactful story. “Arizona” reflects on “experiencing the slow dissolution of my first love, an 11-year relationship with my high school sweetheart” while on tour with Chumped; “Diné Utah Homecoming Queen” was inspired by the story of Mahala Sutherland, the first Indigenous person to win homecoming royalty at Southern Utah University; “New Mexico Blues” took inspiration from a “cold and eerie” night in March of 2020 when COVID cancelled Anika’s tour and she “stayed with an old cowboy in Silver City and we swapped stories by a fire under a crisp, billowing star scape”; and the last song “Colorado Sage” takes place in the Colorado farmhouse where Anika grew up.

They paid $100 a month for rent, the house was infested with mice, and Anika’s single mother struggled to make ends meet, but she had a 100-acre backyard, and as she sings over a gentle acoustic guitar at the song’s end, “I felt rich, wild, and free running through the fields of Colorado sage.” Whether it’s a deeply personal song or a non-personal one, Anika’s storytelling creates a world that makes you feel like you’re right there, breathing in the Southwest air."

- Andrew Sacher, Brooklyn Vegan

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released February 2, 2024

Recorded and mixed by Matt Schimelfenig at The Bunk in Henryville, PA
Mastered by Justin Francis in Nashville, TN
Keys by Kiley Lotz
Viola and Violin by Kayleigh Goldsworthy
Bass by Lou Hanman
Electric Guitar by Anthony Hoey
Drums by Zack Robbins
Steel Guitar by Mike Brenner
Additional Vocals by Kiley and Kayleigh
Vibes by Augusta Koch, Danielle DuBois, and Benny
Acoustic Guitar, Singing, Writing by me

Kayleigh, Kiley, Zack, Lou, and Matt helped arrange Arizona and Kayleigh suggested changing the key of New Mexico Blues which really worked. All of these people helped make these songs real.

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