It It Anita – HI HI HA HA
It It Anita – HI HI HA HA
Vicious Circle Records
Release Date: 30/01/2026
Review by Metalphysicist
10/10
It it Anita is a Noise Rock band from Belgium that’s been around since 2013 and have just released their new album, “HI HI HA HA”, highly influenced by 90ths Alternative Rock, Indie-Rock and another creative musical influences – the kind of musical styles which swept Heavy Metal and Glam Metal off the Billboard charts, sending them straight to the trash can of MTV’s heavily rotated hit songs lists.
“HI HI HA HA” is composed by eight songs on a 36 min running time full of unusual guitar lines, refined drum tempos variations, no vocals affectation and lots, lots of noise! “HI HI HA HA”’ EPK nominates Sonic Youth, Lysistrata, Fugazi, Pavement as It It Anita major musical influences. Yeah, we have plenty of influences of Sonic Youth, which dictates to the noisy and unpleasant musical solutions all around “HI HI HA HA’.
‘Bimb’ is a good example of how they have incorporated, on a creative way, Sonic Youth’s Alternative Rock outstanding attitude, bringing to the mix vocal influenced by The Beastie Boys on this song (Beastie Boys “III Communication”- 90’s-era [1994]) on “HI HI HA HA”.
On ‘Lion Tamer’, ‘Over/Under’ and ‘Social Dodger’ It it Anita” sound just like the early 90’sIndie-Alternative Rock bands that, back to the 90’s, banished Heavy Metal out of MTV’s heavy rotation hits. ‘Cassowary’ is the best song on ‘HI HI HA HA’, By the way, this song made my 50 old damaged mind reminds of ‘100%’ – the Sonic Youth song which made me move 10 steps further from the Heavy Metal late 80’s Rock and Roll decadence.
Disclaimer…
“First of all, I am a sick metalhead since I was 8 old years, so allow me to pass through the weak albums from stellar bands that didn’t help to keep Heavy Metal music relevant in the 90’s) …
Iron Maiden’s “No Prayer for the Dying” (1990) isn’t a good album, and the band went downhill all the way to ‘not so good’ Blaze Baile’s-era; there was something that really concerned me on that moment of Iron Maiden career. Judas Priest drifted away after releasing one of the best Heavy Metal album of all times (“Painkiller” – 1990) but, suddenly, the band left us abandoned for for almost seven years – until 1997
- (Should thou not forget “Voyeurs”, released by Rob Halford’s ‘Industrial Rock Project’, with John Five…Two, released on 1998). And the list goes on.
- But I think that (if you are reading the review until now), you already got my point hire:
- (Heavy Metal killed itself in many ways in the 90’s era.
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Let’s go back to “HI HI HA HA”. By the way, there are a couple of unexpected heavy guitar riffs on ‘Modern Architecture’. The guitar is tuned on a wall-of-sound mode, industrial metal style and the vocals sounded to me like rap/punk Mike Muir’s singing reference (Suicidal Tendencies). ‘Trevor’ sounds like 90s Punk Hardcore (Madball), but more polished and aligned with It it Anita’s musical proposal: to play fierce Alternative Rock, opened to other musical styles, wthat lend original musicality, which brings fresh air to contemporary rock music on “HI HI HA HA”.
TRACKLISTING:
01. Beef Up
02. Modern Architecture
03. Lion Tamer
04. Social Dodger
05. BIMB
06. Cassowary
07. Trevor
08. Over/Under
LINE-UP:
Michaël Goffard: vocals, guitar
Elliot Stassen: bass, backing vocals
Bryan Hayart: drums
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