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Anika previews new solo album with third single "Rights"

30 June 2021, 14:22 | Written by Cerys Kenneally

Anika has unveiled "Rights" as the third preview of her first solo album in over a decade, Change.

"Rights" is the third song to be shared from Anika's new album, landing after earlier outings "Change" and "Finger Pies", and is teamed with a Anika and Sabrina Labis-directed video.

Anika says the new track is about "turning the tables, giving power to those who normally feel disempowered. This song is about unification not division. This song is about female (/queer/non-binary/marginalised communities) empowerment - the joining of forces, not pitted against each other. This song is about wanting to escape reality but then we can never truly escape it, it will always be there to collect its dues. We can only ever achieve temporary escape. The better option is to bring whatever we want into reality."

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."

"Rights" is out now. Anika's Change album will be released 23 July via Invada Records/Sacred Bones, and is available to pre-order now.
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