New Music – Lewsberg – Out and About

It’s our unofficial album of the Week last week, but the Fringe Festival means we’re behind on these things!

They owe a debt to the Velvet Underground, and it would be difficult to describe them as cutting-edge, but it’s equally hard to argue with what they do. This is the fourth album from Lewsberg and they’re well worth checking out. You can hear their new album below.

“Dutch four-piece Lewsberg are set to release their fourth studio album, Out And About, in September 2023. Since forming in 2016, Lewsberg have gone from strength to strength. Despite never really considering themselves as a ‘productive band’, together they have released three LPs, one EP and a series of cassettes and 7”’s, including 2022’s Six Hills, which was released via Dan Carey’s Speedy Wunderground single series.

Lewsberg are named after writer and fellow Rotterdammer Robert Loesberg, famous for his dangerous novel Enige Defecten from 1974. This is one of the band’s main sources of inspiration: the counterculture and big-city cynicism of the 1960s and 1970s. Yet there is also a softer side to Lewsberg’s music and lyrics. On their upcoming album Out And About, this side is more present than ever. Rudimentary pop and rock songs are deliberately kept bare, only occasionally embellished with a violin or organ part. In the lyrics, the tendency towards existentialism and black humour is nuanced with an almost naive openness and engagement.” – More detail here…