Anika has carved out a niche as a kind of modern-day Nico, bringing glacial cool to her dub-infused electro music.

I’m not sure if it’s intentional but this sounds almost like a glacial electro makeover of Mazzy Star’s epic Fade Into You? Not that I’m complaining.

That’s one of my all-time favourite songs and I love Miley Cyrus’s cover version too. If you’ve never heard it you should check it out below.

Annika Henderson has quite the back story. Half British and half German, she comes across as something of a latterday Nico – and has even covered her song These Days.

She was working as a political journalist in Berlin in 2010 when she met Geoff Barrow and, discovering a shared love of dub, punk and Sixties girl groups, recorded her first album with his band Beak>

The self-titled debut infused deadpan covers of familiar and obscure songs (Dylan, Yoko Ono, Twinkle) with textures of spacey dub – including a spectacular version of Masters Of War – and Barrow’s experimental production. 

Henderson has also recorded with Tricky and the Mexico-based psychedelic band Exploded View, but this song, Change, comes from her 2021 solo album of the same name, recorded in Berlin at the Hansa Studios made famous by Bowie and Iggy.

She has also collaborated with Jim Jarmusch, singing covers of Nico’s These Days and Dusty Springfield’s Spooky on the soundtrack of his latest film Father Mother Sister Brother.