Worldviews

Description

On "We Are Where We Are," a sparkling mid-tempo highlight from Annabel's new album, Ben Hendricks sings "a modern way to fill the empty space." Worldviews, the band's fourth LP and their first in nine years, sees the group reconciling with how the world has changed over the decade since their absence. Its protagonists attempt to determine the boundaries between what is real and imaginary, navigating between their worldviews and the dominant ones surrounding them, fighting for an escape or at least a distraction, wondering where time is going, "pretending, running in circles." That could have been Annabel's fate as well. But the core of the Ohio band consists of brothers Ben and Andy Hendricks, and as long as they are together, we still have Annabel. In a world that feels so uncertain and disconnected, where else to turn but to Annabel? Consider Worldviews less as a return and more as the product of years spent gesturing.