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    ANNA MEREDITH

    Oct 26, 2019 5 minutes
    Words by Max Pilley

    You’d be hard pushed to find a harder working composer or musician working today than Anna Meredith. The Scottish composer made her splash in the electronic music arena with her debut studio album Varmints in 2016, but that was far from the beginning of her career. Having been educated at some of the highest seats of learning in the UK, she spent her 20s and 30s as one of the most sought-after classical composers in the country, earning commission from establishment staples from the BBC Proms to the 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

    Since , things have only accelerated. She still sees her full-time job as being a composer for hire, and one of her highest-profile details to date was writing the score and contributing to the soundtrack for Bo Burnham’s directorial feature film debut, the superlative (released in 2018). This year finds her releasing her second studio album, . We spoke to

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