anaiis returns with Sunshine and P4P, two live-band tracks connecting personal joy with political frustration.
Layered vocals and warm instrumentation give Sunshine an open, euphoric pull, while P4P channels frustration into protest.
The London-based French-Senegalese artist explains:
Both songs are more upbeat than my usual material and felt appropriate for a summer release. Whilst ‘P4P’ is more of a protest song, they are both connected to the theme of love and the weight of the terrifying times we are living through. I needed to write ‘Sunshine’ as a way to summon the sun into my life, to feel that somehow it is possible to linger in feelings of joy and bliss, even for a brief moment. Sometimes we have encounters or meet people in our lives that completely shake up our world and suddenly make the impossible feel possible. I wanted to try and touch that through sound. I also feel that in this time where desperation, fear, and anxiety are so easily palpable/tangible amongst us, we need to remember that our joy reminds us of our aliveness and that’s what will keep the fight alive within us.
On P4P, that energy becomes more confrontational.
‘P4P’ was a way for me to express the simultaneous deep frustration about having to find ways to cope and “carry on with life” whilst the world feels like it’s falling apart at every level. It’s about the feelings of rage that are within me when I face the depth of the demons we are fighting collectively. It’s touching on the ways the system and powers that be want to keep us calmly conforming and complicit, but there is no peace to ever be found in this. It’s about creating movement within ourselves and with others, when so much is trying to keep us numb and drained. I think many of us right now are struggling with feeling permitted to preserve our sense of joy, whilst also wanting to see justice and change in the world. These two songs are somewhat attempting to explore these confusing emotions, trying to voice a feeling of resistance.”
Together, the tracks balance joy with resistance.
They follow anaiis’ 2025 album Devotion & the Black Divine and arrive ahead of her first North American headline tour.
anaiis DEVOTION & the BLACK DIVINE TOUR DATES
September 10, 2026 – Los Angeles, CA @ Pico Union
September 11, 2026 – San Francisco, CA @ Swedish Music Hall
September 13, 2026 – Portland, OR @ The Old Church
September 15, 2026 – Seattle, WA @ Fremont Abbey
September 16, 2026 – Vancouver, BC @ Chan Centre
September 18, 2026 – Madison, WI @ Wisconsin Union Theatre
September 19, 2026 – Chicago, IL @ Szold Hall
September 22, 2026 – Toronto, ON @ Longboat Hall
September 23, 2026 – Montreal, QC @ Le Ministère
September 25, 2026 – Boston, MA @ ICA/Boston
September 27, 2026 – Washington D.C. @ Songbyrd
September 28, 2026 – Philadelphia, PA @ Philadelphia Ethical Society
September 30, 2026 – New York, NY @ St Ann & The Holy Trinity Church