ANYX. Berlin-based artist shares brooding debut single "Cockdust" inspired by Julian of Norwich.

INTRODUCING: ANYX - Berlin-based artist shares single "Cockdust" - Inspired by the works of Julian of Norwich - Video online now

Photo credit: Thomas Künzel  Today Berlin-based artist Anna Lucia Nissen introduces her new project ANYX and shares a first single.   "Cockdust” is a powerful and evocative new track, marking the beginning of a new chapter - a striking, slow-burning piece built around a pulsating, throbbing synthesizer, tubular bells, and a Spaghetti Western-style guitar riff that carry through the track’s duration. When ANYX’s jewel-toned vocals drift in, smoky and unearthly, the song swells and billows around lyrics that draw upon the ancient words of Julian of Norwich.   Julian of Norwich was an anchoress and the first known woman to write a book in English, Revelations of Divine Love. The song traces a moment of near-death and rebirth, captured in the suspended state of being “unborn but not yet dead.” It takes inspiration from the notion that women are still searching for our own “costumes” - ones not defined by men, the lyrics echoing with a quietly smouldering fury. ANYX explains: “For me it's a song about learning to trust yourself - your own path, your own decisions. A woman in her thirties who doubts herself but finds the courage to follow her own agenda - I can really relate to that. I think many women can.”   The title “Cockdust” has its own history, lending its name to the one album Nissen released under the moniker Anchoress, despite the song not appearing on the record. Now, with its release as ANYX, “Cockdust” becomes a symbolic point of transition, bridging past and future as she steps into a striking new phase of work as a solo artist.   “Cockdust” on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xilAGNyvt2k "Cockdust" on Bandcamp: https://anyx.bandcamp.com/track/cockdust ANYX is the musical project of Berlin-based musician Anna Lucia Nissen - immersive, otherworldly, at the intersection of experimental pop, ethereal atmosphere, and performance art.  Centred around a magnetic vocal delivery, she crafts a sound that fuses cinematic textures and hypnotic intensity, where moments of vulnerability and intensity coexist.    On stage, she transforms concerts into visceral, performative experiences where movement and presence are as essential as sound. Her work explores the fragility of human experience and the porous boundary between human and non-human life.    Her androgynous vocals - often compared to Anohni or Scott Walker - morph into shifting intonations and deliveries, different personas and egos. Used as a living, breathing instrument, her voice moves effortlessly between force and tenderness, opening liminal spaces where the transcendent and incomprehensible coexist.   “Cockdust” preludes a new body of work, set to unfurl over the coming months.   Links: Instagram | Bandcamp | Linktree