Ii - Red Translucent Vinyl

Description

A NEW HYPNOTIC ALBUM After a first self-titled album on 4AD, brothers Scott and Bryan Devendorf (The National), Ben Lanz (The National, Beirut) and multi-instrumentalist Aaron Arntz (Beirut, Grizzly Bear) are back with II, the new album by LNZNDRF. It is a massive hypnotic force, at once stormy and trance-inducing. Recorded during shamanic jams at Public Hi-Fi studio in Austin, Texas in September 2019, then edited later to give them shape, these songs are rooted in the present and already look a little toward the future. The band equipped themselves with headlamps and caving gear to descend into a somnambulistic space. The album’s drastic cut, "Ringwoodite", with its squeaky, agile and precise drumming, is a breath of fresh air. Then come the electronic "Gaskiers" and the motorik anthem "Stowaway" which, although not connected in terms of sonics, work together to place LNZNDRF as a strange krautrock work. Their incantations seem to point as much to the dystopia of the present as to the Great Mystery that awaits us when we finally cross its threshold. It will not be a utopia but it will at least be something different.