46. ANIKA - ANIKAI threw "Sadness Licks The Sun" into one of my mixes a few months ago because it captivated me the way that Anika - a 23 year old singer from Surrey, England - combines an off-key voice with some dusty and dubby production. It has the execution of post-punk too as this record is rough around the edges.
It's very late 70's and early 80's. It's the sound of a British woman singing in a German accent (her Mum is German.) It's varied. It has a few significant changes in pace, which is unique for a dub record. It's 9 songs long, clocking in at just over 36 minutes. If it was a time of year it would be late summer turning into autumn. It's nostalgic and it sounds utterly timeless.
The aforementioned track "Sadness Licks The Sun" really creeps up on you as the bass throbs and the strobe flashes around as interjected memories of the past whip round your nutjob mind. I feel this'll creep up on me even more later and I'll feel it deserved to be even higher on the list, but such is life when you do silly blog posts.
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