INVSN – Let The Night Love You – Album – 2022

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INVSN

Artist: INVSN
Title: Let The Night Love You
Format: Album
Country of Orign: Sweden
Label: Clouds Hill, Hamburg
Release Date: 3. Juni 2022
Genre: Electronica, Electro, Alternativ & Indie
10 Tracks • 40m 05s

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Intro
INVSN
© by Selma Grönlund

In Sweden, in the north of Europe, veterans like REFUSED fabricated in the nineties a thoroughly punk political music with an attitude.

This rebellious spirit of social justice can also be felt in INVSN, the feverish post-punk melting pot of REFUSED frontman Dennis Lyxzén and a choice selection of members of legendary Swedish rock and punk bands like Masshysteri or Deportees. The former punky sound of the predecessor formations has changed in INVSN over time to an intense, darkly brooding view of life, equally disturbingly topical and absolutely timeless.

The album new album “Let The Night Love You”, for which fans have had to wait five years, was released on 03.06.2022 by Clouds Hill Label in Hamburg.

The album “Let The Night Love You”

“LET THE NIGHT LOVE YOU “ has become a dusky, inward-looking skeptical album, which is not so much screaming out some rage as it was during past punk times, but is rather driven by an epic sense of the morbid grandeur and apocalyptic megalomania of the current dominant overall world-political and social situation. These are tracks that seem tailor-made to portray accusatory songs about cities in ruins and fracturing societies and relationships.

“INVSN draws on a wide range of influences,” explains the singer. In between the multilayered sound structures, a bit of Bauhaus, the Sisters Of Mercy or some of the most imaginative pieces of Depeche Mode are shining out, in a way reminiscences of past electro-infused musical worlds with the great inviting gesture.

But INVSN do not live in the past, they do not have much to do with pathos. Dennis Lyxzén, Anders Stenberg, André Sandström, Sara Almgren and Christina Karlsson were born into the liberal oasis of Swedish hardcore punk and are consequently genetic on an never-ending crusade for justice.

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They just know their musical roots and create with this musical verse pieces a fresh, moving hyper-modern forward-driving sound, which on paper could be described naturally and actually with the term post-punk.

The tracks don’t necessarily belong into the punk drawer, but they are imbued with a punk ethos. “We’ve all played in hardcore bands at some point, which is reflected in INVSN’s attitude. Our new record may not sound punk, but it’s inherently punk – especially in terms of our political view of the world and our DIY approach,” Lyxzén says.

It is no coincidence that the songs were created during two intense weeks in May 2019 at Svenska Grammofonstudion in Gothenburg mainly at night – all genuine and “created without sunlight,” as Dennis Lyxzén expresses it with a grin. “Night represents your darkest fears and your deepest longings,” the bandleader says of the track. “We live in a time when most of us struggle with mental health. This record is about embracing the dark, painful side, acknowledging our own emotions, desires, and fears. They are a part of us and should be treated as such,” says Dennis.

And he goes further to explain, “This world is a very unforgiving place, so you should at least try to accept yourself. Nowadays, people can spend forever tweaking an album with all this home studio equipment, so that’s what we’re saying We didn’t want that. We wanted that intensity of the Snapshot aesthetic.” He shrugs. “But who knows, maybe that’s just our punk attitude again.”

At the Bottom Line

It is quite difficult with this album to give you one or the other hint for some special tracks you should listen to. Maybe you try the pumping stomping “Slow Disco”, or the hypnotic track “Burn Baby Burn”, or even the almost incantatory “How Far Have We Fallen”.

I think the last time I heard Depeche Mode’s album “Ultra” in 1997, I had the feeling that a single track, no matter how outstanding it is, can only achieve its true greatness in the context of the album as a whole. And here it is again, this old almost archaic feeling that I just described and that now comes to light again when listening to the new album “Let The Night Love You” by INVSN.

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4.8

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