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NAKED LUNCH
"I founded this band and I'll take it to the grave when I feel like it," said Naked Lunch mastermind, songwriter and singer Oliver Welter once. Apparently, he's not feeling like it yet. So it's no surprise that this band, written off by many, is opening another chapter in its eventful history twelve years after their last album "All Is Fever" (2013), which was heavily celebrated by the press, with the new record "Lights And A Slight Taste Of Death." And not just with style-setting and trend-defining albums like "Songs For The Exhausted" (2004) or "This Atom Heart Of Ours" (2007), for which they were awarded an Amadeus Award in their Austrian homeland, but also with countless high-energy live performances under their belt. And now, after new and revised band lineups, comes this record—one might almost say outrageous—where, as seemingly with every Naked Lunch release, everything seems to be at stake once again. The title alone carries light and death—in small doses—signaling: here the "human condition" is measured and explored once more without reservation using the means of (pop) music. All the madness, the perspective and journey of songwriter and singer Welter with these songs run deep, travel far, not least into himself—and from there back out again into the world. With the almost fated encounter with musician and producer Wolfgang Lehmann ("the best and most talented music understander there is," as Welter says), Welter worked with him in his studio to arrange, produce and finally have Lehmann mix the various versions of the songs from "Lights And A Slight Taste Of Death." All with the help of longtime companions Alex Jezdinsky (drums) and Boris Hauf (keys/sax). "
