AFTER a completely sold-out UK tour in fall 2024, Anna Erhard returns in spring 2025 for another 12 concerts, one of which is at The Cornish Bank in Falmouth on Wednesday, March 19 2025.

The Berlin-based, Swiss-born singer released her highly anticipated third album Botanical Garden in September 2024 and was celebrated by the press throughout Europe. In the UK, BBC 6Music supported the singer with heavy rotation airplay.

Her songs, somewhere between the spirit of Kurt Vile and early Beck, are an eclectic mix of distorted guitars and lo-fi keyboards. With characteristic nonchalance, Anna performs mischievous lyrics, setting her everyday life and her wanderings to music.

Anna said: “I’ve had the sweetest time in the UK and I’m very excited to come back in March 2025. We’re going to visit prestigious sounding cities all over the Island, it will be great.“

Her 2021 debut album Short Cut showcased her musical versatility, pairing fuzzed-out guitar hooks with electronic textures and samples, underscored by that perfectly crisp, droll vocal. This was followed in 2022 by Campsite, whose nostalgic eponymous track earned plaudits from the likes of Marc Riley, Steve Lamacq, Lauren Laverne and John Kennedy.

Botanical Garden continues in this vein, its deceptively slacker ambience masking slick arrangements and watertight, driving percussion – with no shortage of colourful synthlines courtesy of Erhard's pocket piano.

Friendships played a large part in the recording process of Botanical Garden. As well as working with longtime collaborator Pola Roy, she invited Berlin friends to drop in at the studio for sessions that sat somewhere between a 9-5 routine and a spontaneous hang.

Starting off jamming ideas on a modulated synthesizer, they would create loops to layer into guitar parts, incorporating samples and happy accidents along the way (’Botanical Garden’ started life as a Eurotrance anthem).

Thematically, many of the tracks on Botanical Garden offer the same steely critique of modern life, the dogged pursuit of happiness, growth and (in some cases literally) the pain of measuring yourself up against other people.

Anna adds: “All the songs are kind of about comparing, and rating somehow that was really a big topic on this album.”

Anna Erhard has been embarking on an extensive tour which started in May and includes a string of shows in the UK and Europe.

To book tickets to the Falmouth performance, visit: thecornishbank.co.uk/TheCornishBank.dll/WhatsOn