London’s shape-shifting artist Anolah returns with “Slack Line,” an adrenaline-laced new single released via Speedy Wunderground’s cult 7” Single Series. Raised between underground scenes and sound-system culture, Anolah channels that nomadic creative upbringing into a sound that refuses to sit still, drawing from soul, jazz, R&B, punk, hip hop, dub, jungle and breakbeat. Produced by Dan Carey, “Slack Line” captures that borderless energy in under three minutes, fusing hyperactive basslines with glitch-spiked electronics for one of her most explosive releases yet.
The track features a fired-up guest appearance from London singer-poet Hak Baker, whose gritty delivery intertwines with Anolah’s in a chorus built to be shouted rather than sung. Their collision of voices heightens the track’s confrontational spirit as they bark, “Yours and yours will be yours / Mines will be mines / Rats don’t get cats eyes…”
Speaking about the single, Anolah says,
“Sometimes people get a little too confident in who they think you are and project that onto you. And it’s like babe we’re not married, I didn’t ask for your input so let me do me and you can do you.”
Alongside the main release, a limited 7” pressing lands on 4 December with an additional dub reconstruction by Carey titled “Dub Line,” further stretching the track’s restless, genre-agnostic DNA. To celebrate, Anolah will take the stage at The Windmill in Brixton on 8 December.
