Name: In Your Hands
Brand: Lewsberg

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CD-LB-08

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2022-04-29

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Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5056321667373

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Lewsberg

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

12xu

Lewsberg from Rotterdam is a 4-piece named after writer and fellow Rotterdam citizen Robert Loesberg, famous for his novel Enige Defecten from 1974. That is the greatest source of inspiration for the band: counterculture and big city cynicism of the 60s and 70s.
Lewsberg makes rudimentary repetitive rock songs characterized by nonchalant intensity. The english lyrics, brought with a Rotterdam accent, show a tendency towards existentialism and black humor.

Sometimes change comes with big shocks, sometimes it comes with small steps. On In Your Hands, Lewsberg’s new album, a bit of both seems to be happening. Take the second song, ‘The Corner.’ A remarkably discreet song; a violin plays a simple melody, a gentle drum loop keeps its finger on the pulse. “This brick is a brick to build,” it sounds, though a little later: “This brick is a brick to throw.” A brick offers many possibilities, for those who want to see it. One time as a part of something bigger to come, the next time just as a simple stone, left on the ground. After all, most things are relative. Sometimes one can achieve more by breaking something than by building something. If you think you can determine which of these two is needed, you’d be fooling yourself.

In Your Hands embodies the moment when all the bricks are there, but the wall has yet to be built. It’s a moment with perspective, a moment where everything still seems possible, but caution is advised. The album sounds both smaller and more spacious than the previous albums. Guitar chords are plucked instead of fiercely struck, the bass guitar is given more room for melodic explorations, the drum kit is dismantled to just a tom and a tambourine. There is doubt in the lyrics, but it’s a strong kind of doubt. A doubt that can stand in the way of a wrong decision, but can also invite for a good conversation. The old Lewsberg has been professionally demolished and the building blocks are on display. Ready for future applications and already finished at the same time. In Your Hands is therefore an ode to the potential and a call to carefully give way to it.

In Your Hands

Music US