Evanston Singer Lindsay Anderson, formerly of L’Altra, to Release New Album at Epiphany Center Nov. 7

Lindsay Anderson is ready to fly.

Anderson — an Evanston-based singer-songwriter who is best known for being part of the dream pop, chamber-rock group L’Altra in the early 2000s — is no stranger to artistic success. Throughout her decades-long career, Anderson has made a name for herself with her experimental, ethereal sound, performing at SXSW, touring around the world, and performing alongside the likes of The Cowboy Junkies, The Stars, Todd Rundgren and more.

Yet almost all of Anderson’s music has been intertwined with her romantic relationships. Anderson
formed L’Altra in 1999 with her then-partner Joseph Costa, and although they broke up shortly
afterward, they continued to write and tour together until 2012. Personally, Anderson moved on. She
got married and divorced and had two children. But creatively, she struggled to set out on her own,
apart from L’Altra. She released the solo album, If, in 2005, and then went back to L'Altra to do another
album, Telepathic, in 2012. “It's like I wanted to be on my own and then got scared,” Anderson says.

Later, Anderson found another creative partner and released three more albums under the band-names Hibernis and Same Waves in 2018 and 2020.

While Anderson is grateful for the creative collaborations, which are in and of themselves magical and difficult to find, says she often felt held back in expressing herself fully.

Now, Anderson is back with a new album, Forgiving, which she says is her chance to come to terms with her failed relationships while also honoring the creative output that they fueled. The album is scheduled to be released on Nov. 7 at a concert at the Epiphany Center, 201 S. Ashland Ave., in Chicago.
“Creative partnerships have pushed me to places I would never have reached on my own. This music is as much a testament to that as well as my opportunity to tell my story in my own way,” she said.
“Forgiving is very much about processing events that led me to a really difficult place. It has been the
process of grieving losses and moving on.”

Forgiving is a 12-song conceptual journey inspired by the romantic and artistic entanglement of surrealist painters Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst. Carrington, a young, aspiring painter, fell in love with Ernst, a German-born painter who was one of the founders of the Dada movement, in Paris in 1937, when he was 46 and she was just 19 years old. Two years later, Ernst was arrested by the Nazis and escaped to the United States where he married Peggy Guggenheim shortly afterward, leaving Carrington so devastated that she was admitted to a psychiatric hospital against her will.

“I came across Leonora’s story as I was looking into existential and surrealist texts while writing the
music for this album. From there, my journey and Leonora's story started to intertwine. I related to her being a muse of male artists, while also having the calling to create herself. I've always wanted to be close to artists because of their artistry, not necessarily because of romance. There just weren’t that many females working around me in music at the time. I confused the intimacy that comes with creative collaboration with the intimacy of romance. While the creative collaborations have always yielded interesting results, they’ve certainly taken a toll on my mental health. I've always given away my creative power and yielded to male fantasies,” Anderson said. “It was a truth I could only admit at first through song.”

In the new album, Anderson finds her own power, self-love and forgiveness. Drawing parallels between her own experiences and Carrington’s, Anderson reflects on the challenges of defining one’s voice within male-dominated creative spaces. The songs fuse autobiography with myth, dream logic, and archetypal storytelling.

In this body of work, Anderson inhabits characters like Lewis Carroll’s Alice—no longer innocent, but older, restless, and yearning for meaning. In a Wonderland turned darker and more coercive, she meets the Wolf, a seductive figure inspired by Carrington’s paintings, and navigates the liminal space between desire and self-liberation.

At its core, her latest album is a love story—intense, impractical, and timeless—between two artists
navigating creation, self-identity, and loss. Through her music, Anderson invites listeners to join her on a journey that is both deeply personal and universally human: a meditation on embracing shadow as part of wholeness and finding one’s true self in the process.

Anderson plans to release a 7" vinyl single of the song “The Wolf,” as well as a digital version of “The
Wolf” with an accompanying video in mid-October and the full album in both vinyl and digital forms in November.

In addition to debuting the songs, Anderson is also developing a large-scale, choreographed theatrical experience of the album — a full-bodied heroine’s journey told through music and dance.

Anderson worked with choreographer Drew Lewis to develop a music video for “The Wolf,” which may end up being performed by a live dance ensemble at the album release concert.

“It’s been so exciting to work with Drew and his team on the ‘The Wolf’ video,” Anderson says. “I love
seeing the ways that Drew has interpreted the song to give it new meaning through dance, and I really believe that someday this music could become a stage show of its own.”

Tickets for the Nov. 7 album release show are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. For tickets, please visit https://epiphanychi.com/events/lindsay-anderson-album-release/.

EVENT INFO
Lindsay Anderson “Forgiving” Album Release
Date: Friday, Nov. 7, 2025
Doors: 5 p.m.
Showtime: 8 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
Tickets: $20 in advance, $25 day of show
Chicago-based singer-songwriter Lindsay Anderson is best known for her work with the critically
acclaimed dream pop, chamber-rock group L’Altra and has previously performed with The Cowboy
Junkies, The Stars, Todd Rundgren and more. Now Anderson is back with her new solo project -- the
conceptual album Forgiving. Inspired by the romantic entanglement of surrealist painters Leonora
Carrington and Max Ernst as well as her own experience, the album is a heroine’s journey told through music, exploring themes of artistic identity, power dynamics, feminine self-reclamation and defining one’s voice within male-dominated creative spaces.
Where: Epiphany Center for the Arts, 201 S. Ashland Ave., Chicago
Phone: (312) 421-4600
Info: https://epiphanychi.com/events...

Chicago-based singer-songwriter Lindsay Anderson is best known for her work with the critically

acclaimed dream pop, chamber-rock group L’Altra. Anderson has shared the stage with the Cowboy
Junkies and Todd Rundgren (Park West), indie musicians The Stars, Bill Callahan/Smog and Cat Power, electronic artist Damo Suzuki and Drag City groups Edith Frost and Bonnie Prince Billy. Forgiving is her eighth studio album, after Algorithm of Desire (2018).