Cold Spring issues a retrospective of Little Annie’s collaborative recordings

With, out on 18 April 2025 via Cold Spring, presents a curated selection of collaborative works by Little Annie (Anne Bandez / Annie Anxiety). Issued on LP, CD, and digital formats, the album compiles recordings with a series of notable figures across experimental and alternative music. Pre-orders are available via Bandcamp, including a limited green vinyl edition (250 copies) available exclusively from the label.

Title: With
Artist: Little Annie
Release Date: 2025-04-18
Genres: Avant-garde, Electronica, Experimental Music, Industrial Music, Post-punk
Label: Cold Spring: Industrial, Dark Ambient & Ritual Music News
Description: Little Annie releases With on Cold Spring on April 18 2025 collecting collaborations with Coil Swans Marc Almond and others across eight tracks.

This collection includes eight collaborations, each recorded with artists active in avant-garde, post-industrial, and underground scenes. Among the featured collaborators are Marc Almond (Soft Cell), Coil, Swans, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Baby Dee, Kid Congo Powers (The Gun Club, The Cramps, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds), Paul Wallfisch (The Ministry of Wolves, ex-Swans), and Larsen.

The track “Things Happen”, recorded with Coil, appears alongside other compositions built around themes of grief, memory, and introspection. The selection spans torch songs, esoteric electronics, and melancholic piano-driven arrangements, suggesting a late-night atmosphere reminiscent of cabaret and noir jazz lounges.

The album was mastered by Martin Siewert and features cover artwork by Little Annie.

Tracklisting

1. Little Annie with Marc Almond – Yesterday When I Was Young (4:13)
2. Little Annie with Coil – Things Happen (4:22)
3. Little Annie with Kid Congo Powers – The Weather The War (6:46)
4. Little Annie with Paul Wallfisch – Isle Of Weeping Ladies (5:07)
5. Little Annie with Baby Dee & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – State Of Grace (5:16)
6. Little Annie with Larsen – Lefrak City Limits (7:45)
7. Little Annie with Paul Wallfisch – The Soul Of August (4:27)
8. Little Annie with Swans – Some Things We Do (5:05)

Ann Robie Bandes (b. c.1961), better known as Little Annie, has sustained a prolific multidisciplinary career since the late 1970s. Initially performing with Annie and the Asexuals, she relocated to the UK in 1981 where she became involved with Crass and recorded Barbed Wire Halo for Crass Records. Later, she became associated with Adrian Sherwood’s On-U Sound, recording several albums and collaborating with a wide network including Current 93, Nurse With Wound, and Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry.

Her work has spanned music, visual art, and literature, often navigating themes of trauma, displacement, and spiritual introspection. After a hiatus during the 1990s, she resumed musical activities in the early 2000s, releasing albums such as Songs from the Coalmine Canary (Durtro/Jnana, 2006), Genderful (2010), and Trace (2016). She has also published multiple books including You Can’t Sing The Blues While Drinking Milk (2012) and Sing Don’t Cry / I Remember Mexico (2013), combining autobiographical prose with poetry and lyrics.

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