Lueenas - Tender Anger
- 1Vølve
- 2Beatrice
- 3Canis Lupus
- 4Marianas Trench
- 5Diana
- 6Ships
BHR012LP
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Open edition
“Through works of myth and the primal meeting between violence and tenderness, the duo expands their universe into a realm that feels both ancient and arrestingly new.
The scenes on Lueenas’ second album are haunting visions that gnaw through bone and soul. Tender Anger carries both the bleakness and beauty of Nordic folklore and rural hardship: a dense, grounded world of black, brown, green and grey, pierced occasionally by rays of flickering light.
Following their acclaimed self-titled debut, Ida Duelund and Maria Jagd remain committed to their deeply unique formal language: exploratory string work, slowly rising emotional architectures and majestic, amplified violin and bass worlds that define their sound. Tender Anger also sees the duo widen their scope, inviting in prolific collaborators and expanding on the growing, playful contemplations that have become Lueenas.
Fusing amplified post-classical strings, doom inflected vocals, improvised rock and cinematic minimalism, the album moves through a raw and deeply human sonic landscape, a place where violence and softness coexist.
On the opening track Vølve, Rikke List’s doom metal growl is enveloped by hypnotic string arrangements that create a state of sensory dominance where logic and velocity are bypassed to allow space for a deeper state of being.
Canis Lupus slips from plucked violin and a solitary bass riff to a heavy, rock leaning pulse before collapsing into an endless glissando of chaos, held in place by Jakob Høyer’s commanding drumming.
On Diana, classically trained vocalist Katinka Fogh Vindelev breezes in like a long awaited mouthful of frosty air, hovering above delicate strings and List’s growling undertow. The piece unfolds like an ancient Danish folk song, lyrically rooted in Nordic nature and the plants and animals now on the brink of extinction.
The album then sends the listener off with Ships, a piece suspended in the liminal space between homecoming and departure, between the unknown and the fragility of possibilities.
Tender Anger glistens like an omen, a cinematic, story bearing transmission of centuries of human experience carried through music from long before the world was divided into good and evil, and when emotion, instinct and nature still moved as one. It may serve as a reminder that our lived histories quietly shape what lies ahead.
Be it salvage or total collapse.”
Jonas Sølberg, Barkhausen Recordings
The scenes on Lueenas’ second album are haunting visions that gnaw through bone and soul. Tender Anger carries both the bleakness and beauty of Nordic folklore and rural hardship: a dense, grounded world of black, brown, green and grey, pierced occasionally by rays of flickering light.
Following their acclaimed self-titled debut, Ida Duelund and Maria Jagd remain committed to their deeply unique formal language: exploratory string work, slowly rising emotional architectures and majestic, amplified violin and bass worlds that define their sound. Tender Anger also sees the duo widen their scope, inviting in prolific collaborators and expanding on the growing, playful contemplations that have become Lueenas.
Fusing amplified post-classical strings, doom inflected vocals, improvised rock and cinematic minimalism, the album moves through a raw and deeply human sonic landscape, a place where violence and softness coexist.
On the opening track Vølve, Rikke List’s doom metal growl is enveloped by hypnotic string arrangements that create a state of sensory dominance where logic and velocity are bypassed to allow space for a deeper state of being.
Canis Lupus slips from plucked violin and a solitary bass riff to a heavy, rock leaning pulse before collapsing into an endless glissando of chaos, held in place by Jakob Høyer’s commanding drumming.
On Diana, classically trained vocalist Katinka Fogh Vindelev breezes in like a long awaited mouthful of frosty air, hovering above delicate strings and List’s growling undertow. The piece unfolds like an ancient Danish folk song, lyrically rooted in Nordic nature and the plants and animals now on the brink of extinction.
The album then sends the listener off with Ships, a piece suspended in the liminal space between homecoming and departure, between the unknown and the fragility of possibilities.
Tender Anger glistens like an omen, a cinematic, story bearing transmission of centuries of human experience carried through music from long before the world was divided into good and evil, and when emotion, instinct and nature still moved as one. It may serve as a reminder that our lived histories quietly shape what lies ahead.
Be it salvage or total collapse.”
Jonas Sølberg, Barkhausen Recordings
