Dutch witch rock artist Annicke Shireen releases new music video for »How To Cure A Feeling«; debut album »Delirium« out now on CD and digital!
Dutch witch rock artist Annicke Shireen has released new music video for »How To Cure A Feeling« taken from her debut album, »Delirium«, out on October 23rd, 2026 (Bandcamp) and November 13th, 2026 (all streaming platforms and digipack CD).
Tracklist:
01. Paper Skin Rite
02. Heresy
03. Come To Light
04. False Gods
05. How To Cure A Feeling
06. Not Your Mother
07. Loud Hag
08. To Belong
09. The Circle
10. Queendom
Courtesy of Hold Tight PR:
»How To Cure A Feeling« is one of the Annicke Shireen’s most direct alternative-rock tracks on her new album »Delirium«. It draws on the energy and guitar language of 1990s alt-rock, starting at a high level of intensity and continuing to build without dropping momentum.
Annicke co-composed the track with guitarist and producer Jos Driessen, whose playing is particularly apparent in the arrangement. It is one of the more immediately accessible songs on »Delirium«, but its subject is closely connected to the album’s wider emotional perspective.
The title itself is a question the song challenges. Rather than treating difficult emotions as something that needs a cure, Annicke sees them as information.
“Feelings are a compass, not a problem,” she says. “Silencing our feelings stuns love and growth.” That idea gives the track its sense of release: instead of trying to make the emotion smaller, the music lets it run at full volume.
»How To Cure A Feeling« questions the impulse to treat difficult emotions as problems that need solutions. The song approaches feeling itself as a source of information rather than something to silence.
Photo credit: Ork de Rooij
Annicke Shireen is an independent Witch Rock artist known for her haunting vocals, heavy riffs, and emotionally driven songwriting. Best known as the frontwoman of the Dutch band Shireen, and as a singer and performer with Heilung and Pure Reason Revolution, she launched her solo project in 2021.
Her new album, »Delirium«, presents an ethereal alternative rock sound that explores themes of disconnection, conflict, and personal transformation. Building on the foundation of her previous EPs (The Serpent, Demonette, and The Chariot) the album further develops the sound and identity of the Witch Rock genre.
Stream the album HERE.
Order »Delirium« HERE.
Annicke has developed a career that moves between music, performance and visual art. She joined Heilung as a singer and makeup artist in 2018 and has toured and recorded with the group since, including a performance at The Game Awards in 2023. She has also appeared on stage with Wardruna and continues to work with Shireen alongside her solo projects.
Her solo work brings those disciplines together. Annicke writes and produces her own music while creating the visual world around it, from music videos and styling to stagewear. She holds a degree in fashion design and has worked with custom-made clothing inspired by folklore, avant-garde design and dark fairytales. She designed the first draft of Senua’s armour for Ninja Theory’s Hellblade II: Senua’s Saga, and created costumes for the 2017 arthouse feature Kill Mode. Annicke’s visual approach has long been closely connected to her music. Rather than treating visuals as an addition to the music, she uses them to build a recognisable world around each project. She has produced music videos for Shireen and her solo work that reached millions of views (»Umai« 6.3 million views and »So Human Of You« 1.7 million views).
Her debut solo album »Delirium« moves across ten tracks between alternative rock, metal, synthpop, folk and dreamy grunge, while maintaining a recognisable core of heavy guitars, layered vocals and moody synths. It’s concept grew out of Annicke’s interest in how we construct our understanding of reality, particularly through the perspective of a neurodiverse mind. »Delirium« looks at the frameworks people inherit and the expectations they learn to live by: ideas about femininity, relationships, belonging, emotional behaviour and what is considered “normal.” Rather than presenting fragmentation or difficult emotions as things that need to be fixed, Annicke explores what can be learned from them.
That idea connects the album’s different subjects. »Delirium« moves through love and obsession, personal growth, female empowerment, anger, belonging and the difficulty of trying to find change in yourself while the world around you seems to be set in its ways. Annicke is particularly interested in the relationship between feminine rage and what she describes as a softer kind of revolution: not necessarily becoming louder for the sake of it, but questioning why women are so often expected to make themselves smaller, more agreeable or easier to accept. The album’s title reflects that tension. Annicke originally considered calling the record Hysteria, but chose »Delirium« as it was more fitting to the genre of the album. For her, »Delirium« describes the uncomfortable point at which the framework you have been living inside stops making sense.
Annicke Shireen about her debut solo album:
“»Delirium« is about the moment when the framework you have been living inside no longer fits. It’s the magic of the moment where we stop being acceptable and start becoming ourselves. I wanted to explore that uncomfortable space between losing control and finally taking the power back.
I wanted to give words to the beauty of a mind that does not always move according to the expected rules. Rather than presenting fragmentation as something that needs to be fixed, I wanted to shed light on the wisdom, knowledge and power inside it. The songs of my debut album give shape to feelings of rage, grief, fear, euphoria and love, and I believe music is the best medium to speak from heart to heart.”
Line-up:
Annicke Shireen – Vocals
Davy Knobel – Guitars
Jos Driessen – Bass
Wouter Macare – Drums & Percussion
Kati Rán, Anna Baumann – Backing Vocals
FFO: Wolf Alice, Chelsea Wolfe, Florence + The Machine, All Them Witches, Enya
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