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kunk Anansie’s new album ‘Anarchytecture’ was released on January 15th. As with their
S2011 release, ‘Wonderlustre’, the band merged two words together to create a new one.
‘Anarchytecture’ is a mixture of anarchy and architecture – something frontwoman Skin says is a
description of herself. We chat to Skin about that description, Jeremy Corbyn, X Factor Italy and
how beauty is a curse.

or me I’m using the word in a kind of chy in the music… I think punk died in the sev- you’ve got to go about your life and do all those
“Fdescriptive sense,” says Skin about enties and anything that has happened since things. You’re in a relationship and inside that
‘Anarchytecture’. “This idea of trying to be Eu- then has been punk-esque. It has that angsty structure, the finances, all that stuff, you’ve got
ropean, smashing a very structured, very feeling but it’s not really punk. I think the two humans.”
strong word like architecture and anarchy to- music… in many ways it’s a very groovy album Skin saw her own relationship crumble a
gether. Then you’ve got two crazy words to- that’s kind of borne out of maybe the electronic year ago, which lead to certain songs on the
gether to kind of really talk about how I feel as scene. It’s a band that’s been together for 22 album. She says, “I had a bit of a disaster per-
a British person, how I feel as just a person years. It’s bristling, it’s edgy, it’s darker lyrically. sonally last year… the beginning of last year.
being in and around Europe.” I don’t think it’s anarchistic musically. Some of The end of last year was great, so just every-
She says the music on the new album is the lyrics are a little bit anarchistic. It’s just this thing that’s been happening to me and us is in
not overly anarchistic. ”I think the idea of anar- idea that you want structure and strength, there. So it’s dark, it’s euphoric in a way that

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