Detroit’s Flint Eastwood launches Neon Gold-assisted takeover with massive new single “Queen”

Power, Anderson's previous band, once released 52 tracks in 52 weeks. The first incarnation of Flint Eastwood began as a full band before Anderson took on the moniker for her solo work. It was with this transition to solo artist that Anderson began to move away from the heavier, rockier sounds that had previously defined her music. 2015’s Small Victories EP was a great introduction, but this year’s “Queen” is a mission statement.

“I’m a queen right here,” declares Anderson throughout the track, backed by a mixture of brass and strings, offering both a royal and military soundscape. The lyric “I’m a queen not a soldier” embodies Anderson’s sentiments about being a woman in the music industry. In a post about the track on Facebook she wrote “I went in for an interview and was asked what it was like being a woman in music and everything just clicked.”

“I've always been the boss of my art,” Anderson explains. “I write my own songs, I play shows, I design a lot of my own graphics, make my own videos, craft my own photos, and I hustle alongside an amazing group of people just like every artist does. I had never considered myself different for being a woman. I have always set the standard with my team that I am the boss, regardless of my gender identity.”

With “Queen” as her first release with Neon Gold Records, who have a strong track record of working with up and coming female artists (Marina & the Diamonds, Foxes, Ellie Goulding, and Charli XCX to name but a few) she’s in safe hands. Having been recorded in Detroit’s creative haven Assembled Sound, of which Anderson is one of the founding members, “Queen” is truly authentic and self-made.