Alternative/electronic-rock project artist and producer The Anix is due back with a new album due in 2023 titled Nightvision and ahead of that, brings out new single ‘See Nothing’.
Continuing to pull from the 90s alternative rock, and grunge, ‘See Nothing’ is described as a “fierce but soulful, raw, and untamed track with a cyberpunk edge. Featuring a passionate vocal performance with questioning lyrics that define a mournful soundscape painted with heavy electric guitars, synthesizers, steady rhythms, and closed out with the somber undertones of a bass guitar.”
It also digs into the emotional roller coaster of questioning reality as The Anix taps into a fictional vision of what the future of young emerging musicians might be.
“1994 was the most defining music era for me as a fan,” explained The Anix. “The Prodigy was a huge influence on the electronic and beat production side of my influences, and Nirvana, Failure, Bush, and Sonic Youth were the alt-rock heroes I worshiped. My new single ‘See Nothing‘ captures some of that time period while still grounding the song in a cyberpunk-infused backdrop. I was producing the track with a fictional 2094 year in mind, thinking about how some kids in a garage might produce electro-rock in the future. The track is extremely raw, untuned, messy, and loud with little effort being paid to perfectionism, and all effort focused on the mood of the song.”
The single is available from FiXT here and you can check out the video right here at RAMzine.
Previous single, Spit You Out’, also had a frenzied music video that explored the future of escaping a grim reality by venturing into a parallel virtual world.
Opening with a quote from Edgar Allen Poe, “Is all we see, but a dream within a dream?” the music video sets the stage for the bleak reality of day-to-day living. The pain is only smothered with band aid relief pain pills as the subject ventures through each day at his soul-crushing job. Everything in the music video from his mask to his bland suit and tie, to the insipid desk he sits paints a portrait of just how burned out he is. A replaceable cog in a machine. Nothing more nothing less. He dons a virtual headset to escape this reality with hinted at disastrous results. But is the avenue of escape really what we think it is? Or just another layer of false reality to peel away, another mind game?
Not shy about showing off 90s influences, ‘Spit You Out’ digs into an emotional rollercoaster, impassioned vocals, intense and mind-bending lyrics laced between thrashing guitars and turbulent rhythms with a bitter-sweet edge.
“The majority of my influences come from the alt-rock scene of 1994,” stated The Anix. “I plan to further explore this and push further into that realm of influence, starting with my new single ‘Spit You Out’. Lyrically the song is about the violent ability people have, to mentally destroy each other, and the impact your environment can have over your mental health. I usually mix my songs to push boundaries in modern mixing styles, but with this one, I studied more of the artists and producers I love from the early 90s.
“Steve Albini (Nirvana, The Pixies, Bush) being the main influence. Huge drums, a more raw-sounding vocal, big guitars but with modern bass and synth techniques for massive sonics. The video explores an idea which can take place in the very near future, where tormented individuals find a reality escape mechanism through a virtual world. But what if the virtual world you create starts impacting and distorting your actual reality?”
That single is available here and you can check out the video here at RAMzine.
