Anika

Anika, aka Annika Henderson, is a British-German singer-songwriter currently based in Berlin, whose sound falls somewhere between the overall cool of Broadcast and the propulsive grooviness of classic krautrock bands like Can and Faust. Stylistically her work as a solo artist has not been all that different from the work she has been doing with her band, Exploded View. She opts for a somewhat scrappy and borderline lo-fi sound in her recordings, making use of synths effects and loops to create a distinctive and occasionally eerie sonic landscape. Her self-titled first solo album in 2010 had a number of fascinating covers (see Bob Dylan's "Masters of War" and Yoko Ono's "Yang Yang"). She sings in a relatively deep voice and in a cadence that inevitably draws comparisons to Nico. Her 2023 album Eat Liquid is a live recording that mixes electronic music and spoken words.