“‘Stranger’ is something of a confrontation between my past and present selves in relationship to my trans identity”
Anjimile has signed to 4AD. His first new single for the label, “Stranger,” is out today. Give it a listen below.
“‘Stranger’ is something of a confrontation between my past and present selves in relationship to my trans identity,” Anjimile said in a statement. “I started testosterone about 3 or 4 years ago, and It’s been simultaneously liberating and alarming to note the changes to my mind and body over the years. ‘Stranger’ is an admission to myself that, while I welcome all of those changes—especially the deepening effect of testosterone on my singing and speaking voice—it’s still scary and there is a degree of internal ambivalence to my transition. In transitioning I lost, or gave up, a part of myself. And that is hard to reconcile. ‘Stranger’ is an attempt at some semblance of reconciliation, I guess.”
Animile, raised in Dallas and now based in North Carolina, released his debut album Giver Taker last year via Father/Daughter.
