Anna of the North: "I hope our album can be something positive"

As one-half of Norwegian-Kiwi duo Anna of the North, she met Australian producer Brady Daniell-Smith after moving to Melbourne to study. “He was performing an acoustic show, and I was in the audience,” she begins, telling the story of their chance meeting. “It wasn’t planned at all, it just kind of happened. I play guitar and piano and, in his break, I sang a song because my friends forced me to…”

Peer pressure turned out to be a blessing in disguise, though. After hearing Anna sing, Brady approached her and asked if she’d like to make music together. Soon after that, Anna of the North – “Brady came up with the name, jokingly, while I was sleeping and it just stuck… he was in another time zone” - was born as a way of exorcising the demons of their love lives.