Laura Krieg is a means of geocritical self-defence. A cold wave of brutalist pop. A drum machine, a microphone, and silver glitter. With her latest album Crépuscule she brings people to dance, even if they’re sad. Driven by an ethereal and warm sound, the songs are to listen to with an open heart.
Schulverweis make punk the way it should be: completely in the moment. The concept of the band, consisting of L.F.T. and Levente: They record every song directly in a jam on a tape deck.
Laura Krieg
Laura Krieg explores the imaginary of the end; builds a series of images captured at the moment when everything is about to disappear. A red sky in the desert, a diffuse character taking form but refusing to become real. In her own words:
I approached the writing of the album as multiple attempts to grasp this entity, resulting in a collection of fragments. I was inspired by classic Greek tragedy: Medea, the outsider, standing by the abysm, in the middle of the emptiness. And by postdramatic theater: Hamlet-machine, the impossibility to have a voice in the shadow of the Ghost. The omnipresence of death where we expect life.
Schulverweis
The appropriate line of the song: "In the expensive café around the corner, latte macchiato die. Drink my coffee black, like I deserve, no sugar for me, no sugar for me." Because Schulverweis actually only came about because they had to share a studio in the overcrowded metropolis of Hamburg. And that's where it all comes together: dystopian synth pads, dusty drum patterns and endearingly banal guitar riffs. There's a colorful mix of storytelling, shouting and babbling. German, French, English, who cares.
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