ANYX announces debut album 'Starlink' for Aug 28th. Lead single & video "Ladybirds Spine" online now.

ANYX - Announces debut album 'Starlink' - Out August 28th via La Rubia Producciones - Shares new single & accompanying video, "Ladybirds Spine"

Photo credit: Spyros Droussiotis  Today Berlin-based artist, musician and vocalist ANYX announces details of her debut solo album ‘Starlink’, set for release on August 28th via La Rubia Producciones. Along with the news she shares the album’s first single & accompanying video, “Ladybirds Spine”.   ‘Starlink’ is the first solo work by ANYX – aka Berlin-based artist, musician and vocalist Anna Lucia Nissen – emerging from her previous work as front-person of the trio Anchoress.   Today’s single “Ladybirds Spine” opens the album with assertive grandiosity: an authoritative drumbeat in tandem with a wall of guitar noise, vast and all-encompassing. But when a voice enters the frame, it does so with disarming vulnerability: “On the back of a Ladybird’s spine / Life seemed too much, too much for my kind”. "Those opening lines came first. I wrote this song from a place where everything felt too big, too loud, too much — the pressure of visibility, of documenting your life online just to prove it's real. I felt like I couldn't keep up. Like sitting on a ladybird's spine, seeing the world from that tiny, overwhelmed perspective." ANYX comments. "But underneath that smallness is something stubborn - the feeling that I can still act, still choose, still move through the noise on my own terms. I won't rise - to your standards, but my own. I won't dance - at your parties, but my own."   Existing in the tension between the overwhelming world we occupy and the private worlds we build for ourselves, “Ladybirds Spine” captures both the vastness of the stars in the sky and the speck of dust they emerged from. From its vulnerable start, ANYX’s voice warps and transforms to express anger, spite and defiance, commanding the surrounding instrumentation to drop out and build itself up again from nothing. The song expresses the overwhelm of being strung between conflicting states: the miraculous eternity of the natural world competing with the follies of contemporary capitalist life.    “Ladybirds Spine” video: https://youtu.be/W4l6GJbF0Rc Other "Ladybirds Spine" listening links: https://anyx.lnk.to/ladybirds-spine   The video for "Ladybirds Spine" was directed by Tobias Textor. ANYX comments: "Ladybirds Spine lives between two emotional states. On one hand, there's this feeling that everything has become too big, too loud and too fast, that you're struggling to keep up with a world built around endless visibility, consumption and performance. That's the character wandering through shopping malls and other liminal spaces, feeling overwhelmed and out of place. But at the same time, there's another energy running through the song. Defiance. Desire. A refusal to disappear. When I sing 'I won't rise to your standards, I won't dance at your parties', I don't hear resignation. I hear someone creating their own space instead. That's why the second character dances through a parking garage surrounded by black luxury cars, reclaiming these symbols of power for herself. In a way, the video says: I'm not dancing at your party. I'm dancing at my own party in the parking garage between your shiny cars while you're sitting at home watching the evening news. Both characters are me. One feels small. The other refuses to stay that way." Co-written with previous collaborators Alexander Rathbone and Tobias Textor, ‘Starlink’ represents both a progression and something of a return to ANYX’s roots as a visual artist. She takes a sculptural approach to her songs, starting with her voice and words as internal navigation from which she works outwards. Around this core, she builds minimal instrumentation – harp, keys, guitar, double bass – until each song is muscular and multi-dimensional. The title ‘Starlink’ comes from a night spent looking at what appeared to be stars, but were actually man-made satellites: the miraculous eternity of the natural world interrupted by the machinery and ambitions of modern capitalism. Throughout the album, Nissen explores these incongruities and tensions through ever-shifting arrangements, overlapping textures and songs that transform and bleed into one another. Centred around a magnetic and androgynous vocal delivery, ANYX crafts experimental pop dirges merging drone atmospheres with theatrical intensity. Her voice moves effortlessly between force and tenderness, opening liminal spaces where the transcendent and incomprehensible coexist. On stage, she transforms concerts into visceral, performative experiences, shaping both her body and the surrounding space into a self-authored universe. ANYX live dates: Sept 16 - Berlin, DE - Galiläakirche (w/Kristof Hahn & Andy Aquarius) More dates to be announced soon. ‘Starlink’ track list: 1. Ladybirds Spine - official video 2. Prelude 3. Window In Your Eyes 4. Pylon 5. Strange Times 6. Spring Birds 7. Sucker 8. Marian 9. Relic   ‘Starlink’ album artwork (photo credit Michaela Knizova):   Links: Instagram | Bandcamp | Linktree