Lindsay Anderson Unleashes ‘The Wolf’ Ahead of Surrealist-Inspired Concept Album, ‘Forgiving’
Lindsay Anderson is set to release her highly anticipated new album, ‘Forgiving,’ a 12-song conceptual journey inspired by the turbulent romance and artistic entanglement of surrealist painters Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst.
Drawing on Carrington’s text Down Below, Anderson explores themes of love, artistic identity, power dynamics, and feminine self-reclamation. She parallels the surrealists’ relationship with her own life, exploring the challenges of defining one’s voice within creative spaces. The album fuses autobiography with myth and dream logic to reclaim her narrative.
“This project is about reclaiming that voice, and reshaping the narrative on my own terms,” Anderson states.
The album’s first single, ‘The Wolf,’ is being released independently as a 7″. The track is a haunting, poetic exploration of power dynamics and transformation within an intimate relationship, layering metaphor to present the wolf as a symbol of muse-artist tension and feminine wildness.
Anderson’s narrator subverts the traditional patriarchal symbol: she is “the wolf at bay, waiting not to be saved, but to awaken.”
The accompanying music and dance video was shot in Chicago in July 2025. Directed by Allison Burke, it features the contemporary dance group House of Dov led by Drew Lewis, who also handled choreography.
‘Forgiving’ is expected to be released later this year. ‘The Wolf’ and ‘Forgiving’ are available for preorder at the following link!
Headline photo: Lindsay Anderson (Credit: Marzena Abrahamik)
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