Friedberg

What is the dao of Anna Friedberg? Just start walking. “I don’t even know where I’m walking, and then things happen,” she says via phone from her home in London. Her voice is full of laughter and excitement; her sentences punctuated by laughter. “In my past, sometimes I’ve thought about it too much, but it’s better to just start, and then everything is a bit easier as well. It doesn’t seem like a big, scary rock in front of you.” The Austrian-born singer-songwriter started her latest musical journey with a road trip through the spiritual desert of Joshua Tree and now finds herself opening for synthpop heroes Hot Chip. Her gritty yet expansive brand of sing-along pop-rock is fuzzy around the edges and instantly likable with all the vintage cool of mid-aught indie dance-rock classics, taking...