‘Starlink’ is the first solo work by ANYX, aka musician and vocalist Anna Lucia Nissen, and will be released on August 28. The featured video track 'Ladybirds Spine' opens the album with assertive grandiosity: an authoritative drumbeat in tandem with a wall of guitar noise, vast and all-encompassing. But when a voice enters the frame, it does so with disarming vulnerability.
 
Existing in the tension between the overwhelming world we occupy and the private worlds we build for ourselves, 'Ladybirds Spine' captures both the vastness of the stars in the sky and the speck of dust they emerged from. From its vulnerable start, ANYX’s voice warps and transforms to express anger, spite and defiance, commanding the surrounding instrumentation to drop out and build itself up again from nothing. The song expresses the overwhelm of being strung between conflicting states: the miraculous eternity of the natural world competing with the follies of contemporary capitalist life. 

On the video, ANYX comments: "Ladybirds Spine lives between two emotional states. On one hand, there's this feeling that everything has become too big, too loud and too fast, that you're struggling to keep up with a world built around endless visibility, consumption and performance. That's the character wandering through shopping malls and other liminal spaces, feeling overwhelmed and out of place.But at the same time, there's another energy running through the song. Defiance. Desire. A refusal to disappear. When I sing 'I won't rise to your standards, I won't dance at your parties', I don't hear resignation. I hear someone creating their own space instead. That's why the second character dances through a parking garage surrounded by black luxury cars, reclaiming these symbols of power for herself.
In a way, the video says: I'm not dancing at your party. I'm dancing at my own party in the parking garage between your shiny cars while you're sitting at home watching the evening news. Both characters are me. One feels small. The other refuses to stay that way."