Description
“Trying to categorise Annie Anxiety is a futile task… [she] exudes a
magnetic presence on anything she’s contributed to” The Vinyl
Factory
New York City musical maverick and performance artist Annie
Anxiety, aka Little Annie aka Annie Bandez, began her illustrious
career (including work with Adrian Sherwood, Coil, Current 93, and
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry) with Crass. They released her first solo single,
1981’s ‘Barbed Wire Halo’ alongside ‘Cyanide Tears’, an
extraordinarily prescient piece of jagged electronics, samples, and
skeletal rhythms, led by Annie’s nightmarish vocals.
She tells us; “When creating this single with Penny I hadn’t heard
the word ‘avant-guard’ nor could I spell it - I only got explained
‘concretism’ via an interview I did in Berlin regarding some of my
work three years ago - My father was a printer so I grew up with
sound of printing press and subway train beats and always heard
melodies and cross rhythms within those beats - I was just making
dance music / disco tunes to my mind and Pen heard those same
tunes I was hearing - my first recording, in retrospect I guess, was
pretty ‘out there’ at its release, but to us it was dance floor for a
club yet to be invented- one day”.
Penny Rimbaud expands; “Annie Anxiety is a total enigma, a
passionate voice in the wilderness of consensual reason. Dada in
instinct, Monroe in affection, Rambo in inflection, Annie rams it
home with divine thunder. An instigator and innovator, she’s the
bonkers angel of Yonkers, NYC. With no time to spare, Annie takes
to the road with complete conviction, overtaking Kerouac halfway
down 5th Avenue. Catch her if you can”.
Tracklisting
Hello Horror
Cyanide Tears
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