Anika - Anika

Anika - AnikaOn the heels of her Geoff Barrow produced debut album, Anika returns with a self titled EP in spring. Anika's version of The Kinks' lovelorn classic I Go To Sleep leads the EP, which also features brand new covers of songs by The Crystals (He Hit Me), Chromatics (In The City) and Shocking Blue (Love Buzz) as well as dub versions of previous singles Yang Yang and No One's There. Now based in Berlin, Anika retains strong ties to the Bristol scene where

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human level and that do so without too much artifice or evasiveness

The creation of the EP is a result of the need to release something due to their increasing popularity

reissued Bill Fay's albums for Deram - records made in 1970 and 1971 and deleted shortly afterwards - which Miles had always admired

and intrigue in their music

They decided rock'n'roll was the ideal form in which to explore homosexual experiences

A great pop record is like a great friend: an intimate confidante

Valerie and Roby have taken lessons learned from previous works: lush soundscapes reminiscent of Halica

The album's opening track

Over a very short period of time the band managed to successfully develop their career transcending their starting point

Garbology came together over the course of the pandemic

on a break from their tour with Buzzcocks