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The UK-based darkwave/post-punk duo Hanging Freud has dropped the second single/video, "A Hand To Hold The Gun", from its upcoming album, Worship, set for release on 1 December via Spleen+.
Glasgow-based Hanging Freud joined hands with the Belgian label Spleen+ (a division of Alfa Matrix) for the release of Worship, its most personal and emotive album ever.
On this seventh studio album, Paula Borges and Jonathan Skinner continue refining their unique sound identity that nobody has managed so far to narrow down to one specific music style, often evoking influences and elements of post-punk, ethereal, synthgaze, cold wave, ambient pop or yet experimental electronica.
With the heartbeat of a drum machine as a metronome, Paula's vocals are dark, haunting, almost glacial; her enunciation is both plaintive and full of echoing fragile grace. While the cinematic music warps them all in a melancholic ethereal cocoon made of mechanical funeral melodies, icy minimal sequences and suffocating synth atmospheres. The overall ambience is dense, lingering, almost claustrophobic, but so poignant and uplifting that it takes you by the throat and touches you at the deepest end of your soul.
The ten songs featured on this album come from a place of contradiction hanging somewhere between courageous vulnerability and fearful resilience and deal with themes such as collective distress and loss, finding beauty in tragedy or yet questioning what makes us human in the symbolic contrasts of life and death.
It's no surprise to hear that this "less is more" introspective ode to melancholia was written in particular claustrophobic circumstances during the pandemic lockdown. "Because of what was going on, we were essentially stuck in temporary accommodation in Scotland, away from our studio and forced into a period unexperienced before. The songs that came out therefore come from a different place. Everything was done within a laptop and is proudly 100% digital. It was recorded and mixed while sitting on the side of a bed in a mouse-infested apartment...", explains Paula Borges.
Strong from its somewhat nomadic past with multicultural backgrounds of coming from Sao Paulo (Brazil) and London (UK), Hanging Freud signs here a timeless chef d'oeuvre full of beautifully dark simplicity, an emotional body of work that is uncompromising and genre-defying at the same time. If you've missed Hanging Freud so far, the moment has come to fall under its freezing spell and addictively hit the play button - again and again.
Worship gets released as a limited vinyl edition available in two different colours: transparent violet and transparent turquoise (150 copies each worldwide), lush double-CD digipak with the Anomalies bonus EP, and digitally, of course.
"A Hand To Hold The Gun"... Link
Worship tracklist:
01. Grooming
02. Falling Tooth 04:30 video
03. I pray we keep the world
04. A pact among the living
05. This day
06. A hand to hold the gun 03:49 video
07. Come
08. Her joy
09. Beyond
10. Don’t save yourself for him
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