“Anna Sun” by Walk the Moon

"Anna Sun" first surfaced on i want! i want!, the album Walk the Moon put out on their own in 2010, and two years later it became their debut single and made the jump to their major-label debut, Walk the Moon. Singer Nicholas Petricca wrote it with New York songwriter Nick Lerangis, with an assist from an 8-year-old neighbor named Jake Young, and named it after a professor of theirs from Kenyon College.

The song is meant to stand for youth, and it sounds like it: a giddy, sun-drunk indie pop romp with drums that won't sit still and a chorus made for yelling along with your friends on a summer night. The original was cut back home in Cincinnati at Soap Floats Recording Studio, with Chris Schmidt and Ben Cochran behind the board. As a single it climbed to 10 on Billboard's Alternative chart.

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