#14. The Anix - Renegade
The Anix are a solo project of Los Angeles' Brandon Smith, and are currently signed to FiXT, which is Klayton from Circle of Dust's label. They are one of the headliner groups on the industrial/electronic label, and have released two albums in the past year - Hologram coming out at the end of 2019, and Graphite during the summer of 2020. Although the latter did not spawn any hits on the Countdown, it was nice being able to listen to full albums from an artist, as opposed to just singles. Smith and the project remind me of a less whiny, harder, more electrified version of 30 Seconds to Mars.
"Renegade" was a song that immediately stuck to me, and for a while in 2020 I thought it might be a top 10 hit. There are some bizarre timing signatures in the drums and the downtuned guitars and vocals definitely bring an extra edge to the song. Plus the synths at the beginning let you know that you're about to get throttled, which I always appreciate from an industrial artist. I was kind of hoping for more of the same on the record, but it is much heavier on the electronic elements as opposed to being edgier. Still, it's always nice to get some decent variety here on the Countdown. The song has 1.3m streams on Spotify to go with a visual video that has 50k views as well.
Favorite Line: "Maybe I could fly away - float out to nowhere, to nowhere again"
Title: Renegade
Artist: The Anix
Album: Hologram
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