NYC-based singer/songwriter Allegra Krieger has dropped a surprise new album under the name of gentle boxer, showing a whole new side to her artistry. Recorded over the winter just gone, my heart is a gentle boxer is described on Krieger’s Bandcamp page as “found sound in the dank haze + lace over my eyes,” and on Instagram as a “new home for instrumental + noisy experimental janky."

Krieger plays every instrument on the record, except for some synth work on “Sweetheart” by hip-hop artist canteenkilla, who also lends his vocals to the song and one other. The song “From a different place” features the voice of writer Anne Carson reading her 2016 work  “An Essay on Threat.”

Listen to my heart is a gentle boxer below:

Krieger is out on tour later this month opening for Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold's on his run of solo acoustic shows, plus a headline gig in Kingston, NY, on April 23.

Allegra Krieger tour dates:

04/22 Burlington, VT @ Flynn Center for the Performing Arts *
04/23 Kingston, NY @ Tubby's
04/24 Ridgefield, CT @ Ridgefield Playhouse *
04/25 Rockport, MA @ Shalin Liu Performance Center *
04/26 Nashua, NH @ Nashua Center for the Arts *

* with Robin Pecknold

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