It’s like this sunny beach-pop hit you were lured with has suddenly gone round the bend into something unexpectedly darker – and then it spirals into this psyched-out kraut-rock jam and I, just, can’t get, enough:
“You’re getting old, you’re getting old, you’re getting old..”
Take this track, Spider’s Web. The opening sequence, with that tough, cold bassline, manages to combine post-punk sensibilities with, by the time the synths and drums hit, repeato-poprock seamlessly into a kind of melancholic ritualistic spaced-out death dance anthem:
“I’m stuck in a spider’s web, I drag, I drag, I drag..”
And the audacity at which this track Wideness, is able to channel all that New Order / Cash / Molko / Reed / Bowie sleaze, sadness and andro desire into one minimal yet catchy-as-fuck song makes me ache for more:
And I’ve left the best for last, my favorite track She’s Dancing – a familiar bassline, and the clash of the digital drumkit with a psych-pop twist, puts a smile on my face:
Buy Levin Goes Lightly’s album Neo Romantic out now via Treibender Teppich Records