In “Anoxia,” Joey sings about raging fires and anoxia, a technical term for a complete lack of oxygen (not to be confused with hypoxia, which is low levels of oxygen). The verses tell of someone feeling the heat from bushfires and how they’re suffocating as the oxygen is taken by the flames. The second verse details the narrator and their significant other evacuating as the heat becomes comparable to the sun. The narrator remarks that they want to become fully aquatic as the oxygen levels are slowly depleted, and that they hope a road to the ocean is burned for them through the wilderness. The choruses are more bleak however, describing a family in a football field who had suffocated because of the catastrophe. The lyrics find a dark irony in the fact that even though they escaped the fire, they still passed away anyway. A sourceless quote from Joey taken from the song’s Genius page seems to explain the track’s inspiration. “I remember reading this story around the Black Saturday fires where people that were found in the centre of football ovals without a single burn or mark on them. What happens is the fire is so intense it sucks all of the oxygen out of the air… I thought there was a weird, not-beauty in it, but it’s an interesting phenomenon. Kind of morbid…” The song itself shares some similarities to the work of Neil Young with Joey going as far as to say that it was his “Neil Young impersonation song” on 2022-10-18.

“Anoxia” was played by Cavs (drums), Cook (bass), Joey (guitar/vocals) and Stu (guitar/zurna). This makes it the only Flying Microtonal Banana song to feature lead vocals from Joey. It was released on February 24th, 2017.