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Dasha – Anna EP

Florian Buechtingby Florian Buechting

Dasha - Anna

Dasha - Anna
4.5

Rating

 4.5/5

Flyctory.com Pros

  • Nice range of songs
  • Some very personal, intimate writes

The two Dasha shows I featured this year have been one of the highlights of my photography year 2025. On Saturday at the C2C Berlin as well as on her concert in Cologne in July, her extreme training towards stage presence and people interaction simply gave me a lovely time in the photographers’ pit. On 10th October 2025, the country–pop artist released her sophomore EP Anna. Here is my review.

 

Dasha – About The Artist

Anna Dasha Novotny was born in San Luis Obispo, California, on 27th February 2000. The country-pop singer-singwriter with Czech descent started in childhood musical theater productions and turned professional at the age of 20. Her career started slow, with the debut EP $hiny Things (2021) and the debut album Dirty Blonde (2023) having limited commercial success. This changed drastically with Austin, a single release of her 2024 sophomore album What Happens Now?. The November 2023 single release stormed the charts worldwide, including platinum records in countries like Poland, France, or Austria, which are not that well-known for a massive country-pop scene. In the 2024 year-end charts, the song went Top 3 in Belgium (Flanders) and Estonia and thereby even toppe the year-end ranking in the United States.

 

Dasha – Anna – Track by Track

The eight track EP lasts 27 minutes.

1. Work On Me

The EP starts with the very pop-alike Work On Me. The chorus comes with a very nice catch, but overall, the song does not have that level of fascination and straight energy other Dasha songs had in the past.

2. Not At This Party

With the second song, Dasha plays it safe. Not At This Party is already well-known to the country community. It makes you dance when you listen to it at home – and it leads to a lot of fun when the young country lady is on stage. Why shouldn’t it work on Anna? It’s simply too fun!

3. Please Stop Changing

Please Stop Changing opens a series of three new songs in a row. The song is slower one, the blending with fiddle and banjo is cool, though. A very different aspect of Dasha’s music, which works very well in my point of view.

4. Gimme A Second

In the fourth song, Dasha requests to Gimme A Second. The very rhythmic track is rather a type of track you expect from the artist, melodically and lyric-wise. The chorus is a good one as well, so that this one turns out being one of my favorites.

5. I Don’t Mean To

I don’t mean to, but I miss you – this one is a song from the emotional songbook of the US-American artist. A beautiful country ballad, which nicely works together with her lovely, fine voice. I really like it!

6. Train

The EP closes with three songs, which have been released beforehand already. The first one of those is the almost four minute Train. Melodically, it links to I Don’t Mean To, as it is a very personal, emotional one. However, towards the end, it becomes more rhythmic. Nice.

7. Like It Like That

With 2:48 minutes, Like It Like That is the shortest song on Anna. However, the modern country pop track has a nice, punching rhythm and works out very nicely. I like it like that, I need it like that – I’m sure that Dasha fans have a similar thought about this one.

8. Oh, Anna!

Oh, Anna! already fascinated me when Dasha presented the song in Cologne in July on stage. The song re-connects with her inner child. I miss you, I need you, I left you, didn’t mean to. The title track of this EP is so personal and vulnerable, it is definitely one of the highlights of this eight song compilation.

 

Dasha – Anna – Spotify

Here is the EP on Spotify:

 

Dasha – Anna – My View

Eight songs on her new EP, four of them unreleased. Even in that regard, Dasha is illustrating that she has a very straight and honest relation to her fans. Other artists might have release two more singles beforehand and declare it as an album (with a later “deluxe version”, maybe). Anna contains very personal and intimate songs as well as nice party tracks. And thus underlines the beauty of Dasha’s musical work. I really like it – even though there is no new Austin on this publication.

Favorite Song: Gimme A Second

 

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