Anika: Anika Vinyl LP shop pick red x gold packaging (art

red x gold packaging (art direction by Kanye himself)

music label: bbe 2012

hard-to-find tracks on vinyl

" a new school beats tune that's heavily laced with melodic synths

Anika: Anika Vinyl LP shop pick red x gold packaging (artAnika's self titled debut takes me back to when I was first discovering records by groups like ESG and Delta 5. Produced by Portishead's Geoff Barrow, the record does an excellent job of capturing the feel of those No Wave records while simultaneously mining 60s pop. Apparently it was recorded in twelve days, live, with Barrow's current band, Beak. Tracks like "Yang Yang" and "Officer Officer" gravitate towards the punk and dub explorations that were