{"id":22198,"date":"2026-08-28T07:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T12:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=22198"},"modified":"2026-08-28T18:59:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T23:59:36","slug":"nyc-art-rock-band-ecce-shnak-share-new-single-anna-o-and-official-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=22198","title":{"rendered":"NYC art-rock band Ecce Shnak share new single \u201cAnna O\u201d and official video"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NYC art-rock five-piece Ecce Shnak<\/strong> is bombastically stoked to release their third single \u201cAnna O<\/strong>\u201d from their upcoming full-length album Dandy Variances<\/em><\/strong>, which is slated for release on October 23, 2026<\/strong>. \u201cAnna O\u201d is a jump-off-the-couch, roaring-the-hook anthem with big grunge energy. For the first time, Ecce Shnak’s composer\/baritone\/bassist David Roush<\/strong> defers his lyric-writing duties to someone else. His mother, Robin Kneubuhl<\/strong>, wrote a poem months before he and his producer, Jeff Lucci<\/strong>, cooked up a noisy instrumental in March 2019. Roush and Lucci tried the poem out as a lyric, and it fit just right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kneubhul has described her poem as a lament about tragic contradictions in contemporary feminist thought and practice. While Kneubuhl wholeheartedly believes in feminism’s ideals, she is concerned that it is misused toward nefarious ends, to the detriment of women and others alike. The song’s tragic hero embodies both a noteworthy psychoanalytic patient of Freud\u2019s prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Josef Breuer and the real-life gun-slinging heroine Annie Oakley. Though Anna is beleaguered by the contradictions Kneubuhl observes in the poem’s story, she ultimately emerges triumphant in the fight against patriarchy by the song\u2019s end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LISTEN<\/a> TO \u201cANNA O\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The music video is a third collaboration between Ecce Shnak and LA-based film producer DJay Brawner<\/strong>. It stars Ecce Shnak\u2019s soprano, Bella Komodromos<\/strong>, as Anna. Her character is deeply distressed in captivity, as she seems wrongfully entrapped in an asylum. However, through an act of heroic resistance, she overthrows her abusive doctor and his servile aide. She sets herself free while the mighty rock band Ecce Shnak plays her homage as loudly and wildly as they can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Ecce Shnak\u2019s songs draw on a wide array of styles, fans of Nirvana, the Pixies, and the Jesus Lizard will likely latch onto \u201cAnna O\u201d quite tenaciously. Though they are in the process of firming up the specifics, Ecce Shnak can\u2019t wait to play it for the Shnakiverse and music lovers generally on tour this Fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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