ANITA

Location: Split, Croatia   

Year active: 2003 - 2008

Members: Joško Žižić (bass, guitar), Luka Krstulović (guitar), Mišo Popović (drums), Igor Mihovilović (vocals)

Related bands: BIZON, Breed, Essence, Giht Shasie, Kastritis, Leut Magnetik, Pale, Tihi Sadist, TO, Wizard of Stone Mountain

FFO: Funeral Diner, Inkwell, Indian Summer, With Love, The Birds Are Spies, They Report The Trees

Anita

Anita was a Split-based screamo band active from 2003 to 2008. Formed as a quartet, the band shared members with several other related acts from the scene, including Breed and Pale.

Anita's discography currently consists of a 2003 split release with Breed, with a track by Pale included as a bonus, available through Carpe Diem Records' Bandcamp. Their final release came in 2008, a split with experimental rock band To, showcasing a considerable departure from the sound of their earlier material.

Anita's music can largely be described as raw, screaming anguish, steeped in melancholy and utter despair. The lo-fi, demo-like production only adds to that feeling, giving the recordings an intimate and almost suffocating quality. Highlights such as “Twin Brother” and “Fishfield” reveal a strong affection for the classic emocore sound, particularly in the way their songwriting balances abrasive screaming with more melodic and melancholic passages.

For their time, Anita were among the few screamo bands to emerge from Split, making them a notable part of the city's early contribution to the genre. Their presence helped put the Croatian screamo scene on the map, while their relatively short run left behind a small but distinctive body of work that remains worth digging up today.

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Anita su bili screamo bend iz Splita, aktivan od 2003. do 2008. godine. Bend je formiran kao kvartet, a njegovi članovi su istovremeno svirali i u nekoliko drugih povezanih bendova sa scene, uključujući Breed i Pale.

Diskografija Anite trenutno se sastoji od split izdanja sa bendom Breed iz 2003. godine, na kojem se kao bonus nalazi i pesma benda Pale, a izdanje je dostupno preko Bandcampa izdavačke kuće Carpe Diem Records. Njihovo poslednje izdanje pojavilo se 2008. godine, u pitanju je split sa eksperimentalnim rok bendom To, koji predstavlja značajan odmak od zvuka njihovog ranijeg materijala.

Muzika Anite se u velikoj meri može opisati kao sirov, vrišteći očaj, prožet melanholijom i potpunim beznađem. Lo-fi produkcija nalik demo snimku samo dodatno pojačava taj utisak, dajući snimcima intimnu i gotovo zagušljivu atmosferu. Numere poput „Twin Brother“ i „Fishfield“ otkrivaju snažnu naklonost prema klasičnom emocore zvuku, naročito u načinu na koji njihovo pisanje pesama balansira agresivno vrištanje sa melodičnijim i melanholičnim pasažima.

Za svoje vreme, Anita su bili jedan od malobrojnih screamo bendova koji su proizašli iz Splita, što ih čini značajnim delom ranog doprinosa ovog grada žanru. Njihovo prisustvo pomoglo je da se hrvatska screamo scena pozicionira na širem radaru, dok je njihov relativno kratak period aktivnosti iza sebe ostavio mali, ali prepoznatljiv opus koji i danas vredi iskopati.