“These are a series of postcards, snapshots of my life,” says Australian-born, London-based artist Josef Salvat about his brand new album Modern Anxiety. “They could all be addressed to himself. ‘Music is my way of finding out who I am.”

An endearing and excellent sophomore record, Modern Anxiety was produced by Rich Cooper, mixed by Geoff Swan and assisted by Niko Battistini.

In an open letter about the record and where it began, Salvat wrote:

“modern anxiety as an album came together for me when I stopped judging and started accepting my own personal melodrama. Thoughts and feelings I might have once called indulgent and given no air to, now had a place.

“It was still okay to laugh at them, to realise (correctly, usually) how over-the-top and insignificant they were in the grand scheme of things, but at least they finally had a seat at the little table in my head.

“The album is a collection of songs that go to these places. It revels in insecurity and clumsiness, and attempts honesty.”

Check out Josef Salvat’s clip for ‘paper moons’ below:

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Poppy Reid wrote the following review for Rolling Stone Australia magazine:

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Perhaps one of the more underestimated Sydney exports, the London-based electro pop artist delivers a patchwork of emotions. Started after getting beat up in Berlin and touching on the summer rage that followed, Modern Anxiety is surprisingly uplifting. Its autobiographical take on the human condition maintains the same blissed-out intimacy that made his 2016 debut Night Swim so moving.

Rolling Stone gave the record 4 out of 5 stars.

Stream Josef Salvat’s LP Modern Anxiety below

TRACKLISTING:

modern anxiety
call on me
in the afternoon
alone
playground love
melt
no vacancies
paper moons
human
enough

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