Rot is the latest album by Levin Goes Lightly and is more of a group project than their previous albums although it is still mainly the project of Levin Stadler who is based in Leipzig and whose relationship was going into the Red as he was preparing to record the record that started before the first Lockdown and was completed during the unfolding pandemic.
The album opens with the Goth dancefloor filler of Liebhaber to sounds somewhere between Bauhaus and D.A.F. perfect for some dark love scene.
Sieh Mich An feels like a song of longing and desire, but by German isn't good enough to know if that's the case as this spectral slow goth pop song with a glossy sheen slowly unfolds.
Romantik sounds like mid-80's Simple Minds anthemic pop, but with slightly darker vocals that would none the less work really well on a soundtrack as it sounds very filmic.
Earrings is the first song sung in English and is a twisted love song that re-works Carly Simon's You're So Vain into a dark pulsing goth song of love and betrayal with some spectral sounds built around the main guitar core.
Geschiten is a gothy synth pop song of the history of a love affair that may leave you in need of a drink or two to get over at the messy ending of the tale at the emotional core of the song.
Flirren is glacial goth chamber pop that sounds a lot like some of Vlimmer's recent music. The keyboard and synth part has a very 70's sci-fi film feel to it.
All Cats Are Beautiful is a slow goth song of empowerment and strength to carry on no matter who insults you, or how your relationships fall apart, and you grow from the experience as this builds into a dancefloor smash as everyone realizes really All Cats Are Beautiful. This would sound great on daytime radio as it sounds really uplifting.
Drama is a slow pulsing goth melodrama like the final argument that breaks the relationship that was already dying with an almost dark Pet Shop Boys feel to synth pop vibe it almost sounds like the tears are falling from Levin's eyes as he sings it.
The album closers with a timely magisterial gauzy goth cover of Knowing Me Knowing You that would sound perfect on the dancefloor at clubs like Monster Queen or Reptile.
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