‘Starlink’ album artwork by
Michaela Knizova
This is one we have been waiting patiently for. It’s out, the debut album by ANYX. It’s called ‘Starlink’. Read some words then get give it a listen, it might be your favourite this year!
‘Starlink’ is the first solo work by ANYX – aka Berlin-based artist, musician and vocalist Anna Lucia Nissen – following her time as frontperson of the trio Anchoress. Co-written with previous collaborators Alexander Rathbone and Tobias Textor, the album marks both a progression and a return to Nissen’s roots as a visual artist. Her approach is instinctive and sculptural, allowing each song to develop through shifting forms, perspectives and emotional states while remaining anchored in a strong sense of songcraft.
The physicality of Nissen’s process connects with her album’s interrogation of how humanity impacts and shapes the world. 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 competing with the follies of billionaires. For Nissen, contemporary life is full of these incongruities; constant reminders of the tension between the capitalist world and the natural world.
Nissen often seeks out the perspectives of others from which to write, using her voice as a tool for adopting different personas and characters. This includes non-human animals, whose agency is also suppressed in capitalist society. The songs themselves take on characteristics of the natural world, melding into each other and overlapping, transforming and resolving as they unfold.
The album as a whole is a living body of work, ready to be reshaped and re-inhabited during Nissen’s live performances. Live, she again takes a sculptural approach, working to shape her own body and the space around her, inviting us inside her self-authored universe. On ‘Starlink’, ANYX doesn’t just absorb other perspectives; through her voice and sounds, she sculpts a multitudinous, compassionate world of her own.
Listen to ‘Starlink’ in full here: https://hypeddit.com/anyxmusic/starlink
ANYX live dates:
Sept 16 – Berlin, DE – Galiläakirche (w/Kristof Hahn & Andy Aquarius)
Oct 22 – Graz, AT – Cafe Wolf
Oct 24 – Linz, AT – Sirup
More dates to be announced soon.
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