Unbelievable! Not just a one-hit-wonder - but a band creating songs that are made for hits! LAKESIDE X is the new pearl of great IndiePop - with a unique style somewhere between Placebo and Depeche Mode. The tracks on the third album of indie-electronic band Lakeside X titled "City Of Red Lights" are full of sex, seeking and unleashing demons. It is a dark story from the city of red lanterns and curtains, a story from the in-between world of life and death. Like Frank Miller would create another episode of The Crow and David Lynch would sit into a director’s chair. > Our lives are like a red curtained theatre. Everything is a delusion and falseness. Reality hovers over somewhere between, unveiled and unrecognized and we just stare at this absurd performance. We are attracted by shadows and phantoms, the invisible guides who suck out our blood, silently and unobtrusively, leading us like puppets attached to strings created from our passions and fears. We are like our own caricature not living the things we would like to, but the things that are shown to us by our own crooked mirror. We create the audience of our own picturesque show that does not seem to have an end. Here is the city, it is dark, in black and white. Only the red colour shines out of the shades. And there is always rain in the streets. Strings of water are pouring down from the sky and the downtown mess touches your ears. Car horns, people arguing, people are screaming at each other. Do you feel love? It seems so distant. Pain. And loneliness. Waiting for redemption. Waiting for the rain to stop. „I wanted to place the story inside of a noir movie, like it was all a strange sinister dream performance in a theatre or a room with red curtains. It is maybe David Lynch, maybe a comic book, maybe a noir story from in-between-worlds of life and death. Many sounds are backwards, like you would wake up in a lucid dream on psychedelic drugs. It is a sort of a vampire cabaret of a modern age. It is sarcastic but not hopeless. There is still this dirty city outside the window, but you feel reconciled with the fact that you are still part of that dirt“, says frontman Janne Marvannen. Paul Kendall, a renowned sound-engineer who produced and remixed Depeche Mode, Nitzer Ebb, Erasure or Recoil was involved in album mixing and Moimir Papalescu took care of the album master. As a special extra the album comes up with the release „Exit nowhere“ as bonus CD.
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