Anika Releases New Single/Video “Walk Away”

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Anika Releases New Single/Video “Walk Away”

AnikaReleases New Single/Video “ WalkAway ”

NewAlbum, Abyss ,Out April 4th On Sacred Bones

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"[‘Hearsay’is] a rocker brimming with pent-up anxiety." - Stereogum

“Entrancing.”— TheNeedle Dropon “Hearsay”

"AnnikaHenderson’s music has always exhibited a raw edge that placed herwithin the upper echelons of her post-punk peers.” — Uproxx

Anika— the British-born, Berlin-based musician AnnikaHenderson —releases the new single/video, “WalkAway,”from her new album, Abyss,out April4thon SacredBones.Following the “righteously hypnotic” (Paste)leadsingle, “Hearsay,” “WalkAway”is a surprisingly jolly 90s alt-rock tinged track with blatantlyhonest lyrics: “The truth is I don’t really like myself/ And thetruth is I don’t really like anyone else… Sometimes I know, lifecan just suck… And the truth is, I’d rather you just go to hell…And the truth is, I’d rather the whole world did as well.”

Onthe track, Henderson says: “This song is saying all the things Iwant to say but am too scared to say or that society doesn’t acceptme to say. It is dealing with mental health – the state of poormental health in these fucked up, divided, isolated, social media,war, pest, rise of the right times. It is the deconstruction of thefeminine – of topics considered to be private realm.” Asinspiration, Henderson cites “the reckless nature of 90s /2000sHole / Courtney Love records – of not giving a shit – telling ithow it is, not scared to offend, not scared to be cancelled. We havealso lost the space for healthy debate, for difference of opinion,shutting down those we don’t agree with, removing them from oursocial networks.”

Thesong’s accompanying video directed by LauraMartinovawas shot in an ex-brothel in Berlin and “plays with the sociallyconstructed ideas of femininity, of sexuality, of sexual restrictionand confronts them,” Henderson explains. “The character is quitesufficient by herself, sexually and socially liberated – and also abit of a mess, destroying the prim and proper idea of how a goodwifey should be. She is a hedonist, she lets herself go, she showsanger, she shows being drunk, she seems to enjoy dusting the picturesof the naked ladies very much, she is independent and breaking out ofall the bars imposed by the patriarchy. The guy in the video neverfinds her, never even gets close, doesn’t in the slightest disrupther life, he continues to look but she seems to always be a stepahead.”

Watchthe video for “Walk Away”

Anikacreated Abyssout of the frustration, anger, and confusion she feels from existingin our contemporary world. Notably heavier than her previousreleases, the 10-track Abyssfeels raw, urgent, and fueled by strong emotions. Abysswas recorded live to tape at the legendary HansaStudios inBerlin (where the likes of Depeche Mode and David Bowie alsorecorded) in just a few days. Recording live and with minimaloverdubs was an important decision, Anika stresses, in order tocapture the raw immediacy of the album. As before, she wrote thesongs herself, before fleshing them out with MartinThulin of Exploded View,and then assembled a live band to join the pair in the studio –comprising of AndreaBelfion drums, TomasNochteff onbass (Mueran Humanos) and LawrenceGoodwin(The Pleasure Majenta) on guitar, with studio engineering done byNanniJohanssonand FridaClaeson Johansson.