Surprisingly, lounge society hadn’t existed in the 1980s; nobody wanted to have invented the semiotically charged word combination that could have described so well a funk-jazz-pop project to the left of the Culture Club or a few guitars away from the Lounge Lizards. But it’s too late now anyway: With the debut album TIRED OF LIBERTY, the name Lounge Society is set, it stands for a playful, highly intensive handling of styles (and the associated attitudes) that are authenticated by pop history. For the emotional thunder that first post-adolescent songs can use so much. And above all for a swaying narrative of fearlessness where everything is in flux.
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Four lads from the Nowherelands of Northern England, via Dan Carey’s acclaimed London label Speedy Wunderground (Squid, Black Country, New Road, Kae Tempest) and a debut EP in 2021, set out to play disgust and uninhibited embrace where the air screams is thin – in the spaces between post-punk, funk and electronics. At the album’s head end, the pre-release track “Generation Game” barks, a rock ‘n’ roll announcement with sharp teeth and a midsection where the music threatens to run away. Almost everything that makes TIRED OF LIBERTY a great debut is contained in these almost six minutes, missing the no-wave funkiness (“Beneath The Screen”) and a set of engaging, sometimes jubilant post-punk choral vocals (“Last breathing”). Long live the latest re-exploration of the 1980s!
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