Anthony Family — the solo project from Anthony Anzaldo, best known for his work as the founding guitarist of Ceremony — has released their first full-length album, Live From An Ordinary Place, out now. The record is a left turn for an artist known for post-punk but here a highly personal, emotionally complex sophisti-pop is the order of the day. “What you’re going to hear will be unfamiliar to you at first, if you are a fan of the other things I do,” he says. The album itself is something in which Anthony Family embraces his synaesthesia and can see each track as a colour and describes the album across a vivid spectrum. “Soulless is soft teal. 101 North is bright black. Your Dress On Me is DNA burgandy. Sex In The Car; diamond yellow. (thirtyseven); transparent. Fine From A Distance; overcast seafoam. Overmorrow, grayish red. Nothing Something Everything Onemorething; pastel cream. Wander With Me; elderberry. I often hear in color. For me, that’s Ordinary. “ Single “Wander With Me” is out now with an accompanying video: 
Live From An Ordinary Place Tracklisting:
Soulless
101 North
Your Dress on Me
Sex In The Car
(thirtyseven)
Fine From A Distance
Overmorrow
Nothing Something Everything Onemorething
Wander With me Watch the double video for “Your Dress On Me” and “Sex In The Car” HERE 
Anthony Family will head out on a headline tour later this Summer, full dates below: August 8 LA, CA – Philosophical Research Society
August 19 Nashville, TN – DRKMTTR
August 20 Athens, GA – Buvez
August 22 Washington DC – Black Cat
August 23 Philadelphia, PA – Ruba Club
August 24 Brooklyn, NY – TV Eye
August 26 Chicago, IL – Beat Kitchen
August 28 Denver, CO – Skylark Lounge
Tickets here
In tracing Anthony Family’s DNA, if you were to point to Howard Jones, Prefab Sprout, or Yazoo, you’d be on the right track. Ditto the Blue Nile, Scritti Politti — or his all-time hero, Prince. (“I think about him every day in my life,” Anzaldo says of the Purple One. “It’s so beyond that, He doesn’t even consciously register as an influence.” Anzaldo has been writing Anthony Family for years; he had a nascent blueprint for the album in mind for almost a decade. He recorded it over the span of a year, whenever he was able to get in a studio — “until I felt like I had a cohesive body of work that was reflecting where I’m at and how I feel.” Which harkens back to Anzaldo’s core dictum making music: “What do I want from this song? What does this song want from me? What do I want you to feel when you hear this song?” he says. “And will that feeling be conveyed best through full band, synth, guitar, everything? Would that feeling be best with just meeting guitar? Or would that feeling be best over the span of seven minutes with a lot of space, you know? “The process for every tune is different; getting to the destination is always different.” And it’s that destination that matters: the station of the human heart, and Anzaldo’s beats deeper than most. Meet the family. For fans of Perfume Genius, Blood Orange, Caroline Polacheck, Orville Peck, Fabiana Palladino. Anthony Family’s debut album “Live From An Ordinary Place”
out now via Pure Noise Records. Order the album – HERE. | 
