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The NYC duo drops a 90-second adrenaline hit with a bold visual, teasing their upcoming album Purity out September 12th
Fresh off of announcing their collaborative album Bronx-born, Brooklyn-based artist Anysia Kym and NYC producer Tony Seltzer share new single “Automatic”. Another fleeting 90-second taste of what fans can expect from the album, Anysia’s unbridled, and growing, confidence as a songwriter is on full display on “Automatic”, which arrives with an accompanying music video directed by Nicholas Stafford Briggs. The new single adds another layer of insatiable intrigue to the imminent Purity, out September 12th via 10k. “Automatic” follows lead single “Speedrun”, which received praise from The New York Times, The Guardian, Pigeons & Planes, Stereogum and The FADER, who proclaimed the song is “built to be looped over and over again.”
On September 12th, Anysia & Tony will also be playing an album release show at Public Records in Brooklyn, with support from MIKE as dj blackpower and JADALAREIGN. Exclusive merch and physical copies of Purity will also be available for purchase at the show.
Purity is the amorphous byproduct of a naturally budding creative relationship between Anysia and Tony, who bonded over their mutual love of the drums when they first met while the producer was working with MIKE on Pinball. Together, they push each other into new territory musically, with Anysia growing into her stature as an artist with her most emotive and affecting project to-date across Tony’s productions, which dismantles the limits of Anysia as a vocalist. Anysia’s ambitious and ever-expanding range as a vocalist, songwriter and musician is on full display on Purity, as she traverses the otherworldly sonic landscape she built with Tony.
“I’m in it for the long run,” she says. “I’m still such a baby in this, but that really excites me. I want to keep exploring and seeing what’s next. Purity is the album where I’m like, ‘I know this is what I want to do.’”
Anysia has carved out a distinctive sound of her own within New York’s underground landscape through her growing production palette and natural prowess as a drummer that draws from jungle, drum n bass, and soulful R&B. Anysia found kindred spirits in her 10k labelmates MIKE, Sideshow and Niontay, and honed her musical skillset as a producer with 2022’s Soliloquy and 2023’s Pressure Sensitive. With her 2024 project Truest, Anysia confidently planted her voice in the foreground of her production for the first time, which Pitchfork praised as showing “flashes of a star in the making.” Most recently, she collaborated with critically-acclaimed UK producer Loraine James on their joint Clandestine EP released earlier this year via 10k.
Tony Seltzer’s prolific catalog of work over the past decade has made him a household name in the NYC underground scene and beyond, with production credits ranging from Princess Nokia and Jay Critch to Eartheater, earning him platinum and gold records. Most recently, he released the sequel to his celebrated collaborative album with MIKE, Pinball II, earlier this year. Rolling Stone praised Tony’s “energetic, synth-driven production” for unlocking a new creative pathway for MIKE across the two Pinball projects, which is yet another testament to Tony’s ability to challenge his collaborators to explore their limits sonically.
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