Anika announces first solo album in over a decade with title-track "Change"

After returning in April with her first solo release in eight years "Finger Pies", Anika has returned with news of her upcoming album Change, alongside releasing the record's title-track.

Speaking about "Change", Anika says, "There’s a lot of stuff I want to change. Some things I sat down and decided last year, I had to change about myself and my life. Sometimes it feels helpless because the things we want to change are so huge and out of our control. Starting with yourself is always a good place. I think we can change."

Change will follow Anika's 2010 self-titled album.

"This album had been planned for a little while and the circumstances of its inception were quite different to what had been expected," Anika explains. "This coloured the album quite significantly. The lyrics were all written there on the spot. It’s a vomit of emotions, anxieties, empowerment, and of thoughts like—How can this go on? How can we go on?"

She adds, "Another book that affected the brain of this album was Hannah Arendt’s The Banality of Evil. In the context of the Trump era, it was interesting to see how ‘evil’ was put on trial after his downfall. When evil loses, how is it put on trial? How do those who actually held the hand of evil during the evil, sneak into the seat of judge and Jury during the trial, booing with the crowd as if they had no involvement and were not cashing in on the evil’s wild rampage. How are all the evils pinned on that one individual as a way to pardon a whole society that partook in that evil? I suppose this is what Change is about, setting out the hope that we can change, that even those who cheered on the evil can ultimately change their ways."

Tracklist:

1. Finger Pies
2. Critical
3. Change
4. Naysayer
5. Sand Witches
6. Never Coming Back
7. Rights
8. Freedom
9. Wait For Something