ANJIMILE - You’re Free To Go

Your body it changed me now

Your body it changed me

Bodies in “You’re Free To Go”, the third album by American singer-songwriter Anjimile, transform, make contact, even through eroticism, and flow in the groove of constant becoming. Within them emotions, perceptions, thoughts take shape: everything is situated, placed within the flesh. And for Anjimile being embodied, present to the sensations, desires and vital drives of his own body, is also tied to a personal history materially inscribed in every one of his cells. “I can’t forget my flesh”, he sings in the acoustic refrain of “Exquisite Skeleton”, while denouncing a transphobia that is not only widespread in society but that, in his case, has also marked his relationship with his mother:

I don’t wanna be a son of a bitch

To you

I’m taking off my dress

I’m shaking off my skin

Exquisite Skeleton

While on “The King” he pursued a more experimental approach in building the instrumental architecture around the acoustic skeleton of the songs, Anjimile now turns, aided by the seasoned and excellent producer Brad Cook, back toward a warmer, more classic sound. And while on the previous record tension branched out through electronic rhizomes and noisy streaks, here it seeps into the textual folds and clashes with the idyllic folk illusion of the arrangements. This isn't a record with a sense of final resolution either, he told me during our interview. And, once again, that's one of its strengths, forcing the listener to construct their own sense of this tension flowing from the music to the body. Also because it's Anjimile himself who keeps bringing it back into play, drawing on watery imagery that isn't limited to the purest of fluids, but gets dirtied with the blood running through our veins.

A substantial part of the record is also inspired by a new romantic relationship, which, as the artist reveals, acted as a driving force for the writing process. Eroticism and self-acceptance, propelled by water as both symbolic and material vector, intertwine with the record's other themes, making clear just how hard it is to dissect and separate thoughts from emotions. Indeed, pain and love merge and are sublimated at the pop core of “You’re Free To Go”: “Waits For Me” and “Like You Really Mean It” are a textbook pairing, where the former is deeply moving, while the latter brims with a regenerative erotic force, rising to become an anthem to one's own body as a site of pleasure with endless transformative potential.

The Water, the water ran high

I laid my body by the river rocks

Beneath the sky

And time became a song

That carries on without me

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16/03/2026