Anika — the British-born, Berlin-based musician Annika Henderson — releases ‘Oxygen,’ the final single/video from her new album, Abyss, out Friday on Sacred Bones. Anika will embark on a full European tour this spring, which includes shows in London, Bristol, Manchester, Leeds, Belfast, Dublin and Brighton.

Following the 90s alt-rock-tinged ‘Walk Away,’ ‘Oxygen’ gasps for air as we experience increased limits imposed on our bodies, be it reproductive freedoms or restrictions on trans rights. In Anika’s words, ‘Oxygen’ “is about feeling trapped in your own body, in your own narrative, in your own society, within the norms and expected behaviours of this claustrophobic socially constructed world. It wants to break out of this cage, it wants to breathe, it wants to be in tune with its true self, its true feelings, sensations and desires – without restriction.”

Sonically, the track was “inspired by Breeders and Pixies, the way it creeps in slowly and then crashes with this weird chorus/part that only comes in once,” Anika explains. “I didn’t want to write things too rigidly, or by the book, more let them flow as they wished.” The accompanying video was directed by Laura Martinova.