Little Annie

A downtown NYC multidisciplinary artist who rose in the 80s, 90s in the Max's Kansas City scene. Painter, writer, dancer, actor, musician—she did it all. Her first album—and only solo release of the 90s, seemingly—is a laid-back but high-heat romp through dubbed-out electro, house, hip-hop, reggae. Listening to it, I can't help but think it's a low-key Malcolm McLaren production, an effort at bringing the Neneh Cherry sound to the below-14th world of sleazy after-hours and gristly sweatlodge clubs.

She started out, in the mid-80s, in a band called Annie Anxiety, which had more of a 99 Records industrial-funk edge.