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Hometown: Oslo, NO
Label: Duplicate Records, Duplicate Records
Website: www.myspace.com
Sounds Like: Iggy & The Stooges, The Velvet Underground, Darkthrone, King Crimson, Testors
Genre: Rock
In 2002, two hobos left Norway for the golden streets of Europe, but they only found trash.
Busking for beer cans and canned beans, living in dumpsters and car wrecks, songs started popping up like cockroaches. After seven months failing to find a singer, a fistfight nearly killed the band before it was even formed.
Drawing inspiration from The Velvet Underground, Stooges, Sonic Youth, Bowie and oldschool black metal, the band recorded their first ep, brimming with infectious songwriting and brutally honest lyrics. Like a fucked up concoction of honey and bee stings, Lydia Laska feels like a bottle of Macallan single malt smashed in your face.
“For an album beyond explanation, look towards LYDIA LASKA’s latest release “Krankenhaus”. Mixed and mastered in a perfect sense of sound, this album will not disappoint. Combining elements from various genres and making almost a genre of its own, this band is something quite spectacular. Keeping a head strong punk perspective on the music, this act adds a range of effects and samples that are just as crazy as they are unexpected. Full of melodic compositions with wailing guitars, spot on drums, and an unaltered set of vocals. This is the future of punk rock, built upon the basic fundamentals and modified with different features of alternative music to keep up with today’s genres and sub-genres. A real noteworthy thing about this album is that is just full of live energy that rips through your speakers and shake you until it has your full attention. Constantly moving and oddly composed, I can see this album becoming something quite great in no time at all.”
Wrath - Nightspirit.no
“Imagine if Sebastien Grainger formed an Afghan Whigs/Jane’s Addiction tribute band with the sole intention of playing the songs in the style of progressive black metal (sans-shrieking). Wonder no more, because Lydia Laska is the sum of those parts, and more. If this is the direction black metal is going, and with the excellent work from Kvelertak (also from Stavanger) taking a similar approach (if less progressive), then I welcome it. There is a wonderful looseness on display here; songs twist and turn with a high level of precision, noise, and, curiously, funk. It's adventurous music like this that keeps my interest, and my faith, in music high. Not only that, but it inspires me to improve on my own work as a musician. And, surely, there can be no greater aspiration for a band than to evoke such a response. Exciting times people, exciting times.
9 out of 10”
Steve Cowan - Metal Discovery
“Lydia Laska....in my eyes one of thé best newcomers in music the last couple of years!!!!! I don't know what to say...this rocks, this kicks, this drugs me.....BRILLIANT!!!!!
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Marcel Bänziger - Archaic Magazine
