Name: Codes
Brand: Anja Huwe

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

843563170496

Colour

Clear

Colour details

Coke Bottle Clear with White Splatter

Discogs ID

[r30046204]

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Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2024-03-08

Signed copies

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Supplier US

Secre­tly

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

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Clear LP | Rough Trade Exclusive

SBR331lp-C3

Oxblood

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843563171004

Red LP

SBR331lp

Black

Extended format: No

843563170465

Black LP

SBR331cd

843563170502

Artist

Anja Huwe

Genre US

New Wave / Post Punk

Label US

Sacred Bones Records

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After&nbsp;Xmal&nbsp;Deutschland’s success with four albums on cult labels such as 4AD,&nbsp;Huwe&nbsp;abandoned music to pursue her visual art career. But leaving her legacy in the past was not so easy.&nbsp;

During the pandemic&nbsp;Huwe&nbsp;reconsidered her decades-long hiatus&nbsp;from music. With a push by her longtime friend Mona Mur - a singer, songwriter and film music composer (as well as the frontwoman of early-80s project Mona Mur &amp; Die&nbsp;Mieter) -&nbsp;Huwedecided to join Mur in Berlin. Together with Manuela Rickers, guitarist and collaborator&nbsp;in&nbsp;Xmal&nbsp;Deutschland, they tossed around music and poetic ideas that would eventually become the album&nbsp;Codes.

Initially inspired by the diary entries of Moshe&nbsp;Shnitzki, who, at the age of 17, left his home in 1942 to live in the cavernous&nbsp;White&nbsp;Russian forests as a partisan,&nbsp;Codes&nbsp;is about the human experience and what extremes can do to an individual. “The result is a poetic, musical cosmos that encompasses the following themes: forest, fear, pain, loss, violence, and loneliness but also beauty, longing, hope and the will to survive,”&nbsp;Huwe&nbsp;explains. These thematic extremities cause an erraticism to&nbsp;Codes&nbsp;- a passing thunderstorm, a cyclonic burst of nature’s force - but one that exudes anticipation amidst the chill.&nbsp;&nbsp;

With elegant production by Mur and&nbsp;Huwe&nbsp;and mixing and mastering by Jon Caffery (Joy Division, Gary Numan,&nbsp;Einstürzende&nbsp;Neu-&nbsp;bauten) epic builds crash and disseminate, the sleek synthesized drones of sound even feel claustrophobic at times.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Xmal&nbsp;Deutschland, now marked as forerunners of the post-punk movement, were never complacent but consistently ravenous in their attack throughout the 1980s.&nbsp;Huwe’s return is no different. Unexpected but long overdue,&nbsp;Codes&nbsp;is that missing page from post-punk’s history books, the freshly splayed paint across the decades-old canvas - it is the product of the tireless will to survive on her own terms.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Codes

Music US

Discover Codes by Anja Huwe. A poetic, musical cosmos exploring themes of fear, pain, beauty, and survival. Released by Sacred Bones Records.