Lewsberg – “Out and About” (Released 13th October 2023)

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//Lewsberg//

£21.99 – 1xLP

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.

Recorded in Amsterdam in the early spring of 2023 with producer Yulya Divakova, Out And About sees founding members Shalita Dietrich (vocals, bass guitar), Michiel Klein (guitar) and Arie van Vliet (vocals, guitar, violin) joined for the first time on record by drummer and vocalist Marrit Meinema, who joined the band in the autumn of 2021.

Tracklisting:

Angle Of Reflection
Without A Doubt
An Ear To The Chest
A Different View
Going Places
Communion
Canines
The Joy Of Spring
Out For Milk
There’s A Poet In The Bushes
Debbie