ANYX announces debut solo album Starlink, shares first single “Ladybirds Spine”

The Berlin-based artist Anna Lucia Nissen will release her first album under the name ANYX on 28 August. Titled Starlink and arriving via La Rubia Producciones, the record marks a turn away from the experimental trio Anchoress, which Nissen led for the past three years.

The album’s first preview, “Ladybirds Spine”, is out now. Nissen describes writing the song from a place where visibility and the pressure to document a life online felt crushing. “I felt like I couldn’t keep up,” she says. “Like sitting on a ladybird’s spine, seeing the world from that tiny, overwhelmed perspective.” The track’s low pulse and close-mic vocals refuse the big and loud, instead leaning into a quiet stubbornness. She won’t rise to someone else’s standards.

Starlink pulls its title and some of its thematic weight from a moment of misperception. Stargazing, Nissen realised she was looking at satellites, not stars. That tension between natural patterns and man-made machinery runs through the nine songs. Working with co-writers Alexander Rathbone and Tobias Textor, she built arrangements out of minimal harp, keys, guitar, and double bass, approaching her vocals like a visual artist handling material. The result, as she puts it, is sculptural.

A live set in Berlin is planned for September alongside Kristof Hahn and Andy Aquarius, with more dates to be added. The tracklist spans from the sparse opener “Prelude” to closing piece “Relic”.