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Elodie A. Roy discovers a revealing new album from the Berlin-based artist
Sacred Bones Records
Released: 04.04.25
It is always winter when Anika sings. Over the years the Berlin-based artist (and former political journalist) has perfected her own dispassionate, declamatory style of singing. She coldly registers what goes on. She remembers what was there before.
Abyss was recorded at Berlin’s Hansa Studio – very near where the Wall and the no man’s land used to be. Anika speak-sings about distance and division. About history repeating itself. Abyss is a cold, cutting album. A portrait of a woman sinking. A musical nod to Ulrike Ottinger’s 1979 film Ticket of No Return – a drunken drift through the city. At the same time, Anika is also going back to her early inspirations – post-punk and grunge – and there is a promise of fire, somewhere beneath the coldness and the gloom.
