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release:
artist....: Lebanon Hanover
album.....: Asylum Lullabies
type......: album
source....: WEB/MP3
tracks....: 8
label.....: Fabrika Records
store date: 2025-07-10
catalogue#: NONE
encoder...: LAME3.99r
quality...: 320 kbps / 44100Hz / Joint stereo
URL.......: https://open.qobuz.com/album/tfxtzxi06dzoa
genre.....: Darkwave
genres....:
- Greece
- post-rock
- post-punk
- noise
- industrial
- experimental electronic
similar...:
- She Past Away
- Twin Tribes
- FOREVER GREY
- This Cold Night
- Selofan
artist links :
bandcamp : https://lebanonhanover.bandcamp.com/
bandsintown : https://www.bandsintown.com/a/2131802
discogs : https://www.discogs.com/artist/2276783
spotify : https://open.spotify.com/artist/6w8h2uD28BEdg7bX4k3Lh7
deezer : https://www.deezer.com/artist/4697863
last.fm : https://www.last.fm/music/Lebanon+Hanover
lyrics : https://www.musixmatch.com/artist/Lebanon-Hanover
official homepage: https://www.lebanonhanover.com/
rateyourmusic : https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/lebanon_hanover
facebook : https://www.facebook.com/lebanonhanover
songkick : https://www.songkick.com/artists/4047281
soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/lebanon-hanover
apple : https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/639573641
tidal : https://tidal.com/artist/5877812
wikidata : https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15110870
label links :
discogs : https://www.discogs.com/label/265050
official site : https://fabrikarecords.com/
release links:
bandcamp : https://fabrikarecords.bandcamp.com/album/asylum-lullabies
tracklist.:
- [ 01. Pagan Ways 02:31.59 ]
- [ 02. Sleep 04:22.73 ]
- [ 03. Torture Rack 04:52.35 ]
- [ 04. Frosty Life 04:11.70 ]
- [ 05. Waiting List 03:04.22 ]
- [ 06. My Love 03:19.22 ]
- [ 07. I'm Doing This for You 03:15.41 ]
- [ 08. Parrots 04:28.85 ]
comment...: |
Nearly five years after the release of ‘Sci-Fi Sky’, Lebanon Hanover has
produced your favorite soundtrack for a visit in a psychiatry clinic:
‘Asylum Lullabies’. This is the evolution of an even colder, more
caustic sound by a band that has dominated the Post Punk landscape for
over a decade.‘Asylum Lullabies’ is a very heavy album about dealing
with mental health struggles, a breakup and ongoing wars and the current
horror in the world ultimately leaving one consumed with dread, fear and
a constant feeling of being crushed. Everything falls apart at the same
time. Yet, there are also songs about love and the protection it brings.
Members Larissa Iceglass and William Maybeline wrote these songs in
polarizing circumstances, but have produced a cohesive album with
‘Asylum Lullabies’.Pagan Ways opens the album with William Maybeline’s
whispers over massive guitars, evoking Eastern ritualism, setting the
tone for a somber journey, evoking a lonely place of forest and snake
pits. This is the next phase promised with ‘Sci-Fi Sky’s’ closing
incantation Come Kali Come.Sleep is the promised lullaby to to keep you
on the edge of wakefulness and slumber, unsure of which direction to
turn. Larissa Iceglass guides you in circles with quivering
whispers.Torture Rack picks up the Cocteau Twins sound of of the 2023
Lebanon Hanover single Kyiv to the theme of a tortuous love.Frosty Life
begins as another lullaby with Maybeline’s familiar vocals over sparse
guitar and percussion, but it breaks into a sonorous wave.Waiting List
brings the danceable pulse that fans of Lebanon Hanover fans have come
to expect. The influences of early EBM tracks hide below the surface in
a song that builds.Maybeline’s vocal in My Love echo with John Balance’s
ghost, a perfect match for revival synths.The opening notes of I’m Doing
This For You will feel the most familiar to long time fans, but these
guitars and vocals are heavier and darker flirting between weighty power
and expectant yearingParrots feels like an ode to Coil, the masters of
dark experimental. “People have parrots and I have you. Repeating the
words I say in the most gorgeous way.” With Iceglass and Maybeline both
contributing vocals, the album closes with a percussion driven descent
into darkness, into sleep.
biography.: |
Lebanon Hanover is a post-punk duo based in Berlin, Germany and
Newcastle, UK, founded in 2010 by Larissa Iceglass (guitar, vocals) and
William Maybelline (bass, vocals). Iceglass met her partner-in-music,
William Maybelline, over the internet. Conversing through music
recommender website LastFM, they initially sent each other ’80s YouTube
videos, establishing their shared love of music. Eventually Iceglass
took the trip to Maybelline’s home in Sunderland in North England and
the rest, as they say, is history. <a
href="https://www.last.fm/music/Lebanon+Hanover">Read more on
Last.fm</a>