Annie Anxiety - Soul Possession LP

Our Review: An unmistakable voice in the art-punk community throughout the '80s, Annie Anxiety has been best known as freeform punk poet contributing vocals to the likes of Coil, The Wolfgang Press, and various Adrian Sherwood's On-U Sound productions. Her roots harken further back to the nascent punk days when she fronted her band Annie and The Asexuals before she took off from New York to Germany around 1980. She never made it to Berlin. Instead, she found herself in England on the doorstep of Penny Rimbaud and was welcomed into the extended Crass family. Her first single was published through Crass' in-house label, informed less by anarcho-punk than by a dada approach to dub deconstruction through tape-loops and junkyard tribal percussion. Her voice – with a Nuyorican accent that sharpens aggressively upon the more strident consonants and purrs through the softer ones – boldly stands as a commanding presence even against the vitriolic bark of Steve Ignorant or the growled enunciati