LOKOMOTOR - WINTER

1.  Horizont (Horizon)
2.  Tagebuch (Diary)
3.  Klagelied (Lament)
4.  Ein Lied Das Bleibt (The Song Remains)


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It was probably wrong of me to hype this set the little I did because it's a Winter EP, not necessarily a Christmas EP.  Or at least the title is "Winter"; it could be about anything.  That said Lokomotor's "Winter" is gorgeous.  I have translated the titles above, but that doesn't tell me much more about the lyrical content.  I don't know the words they're singing, but the music makes me feel hopeful.  Lokomotor sings and plays what they call Ghost Pop.  That's a new one on me but, from what I gather, it's music arising from the ancient spirits.  And there appears to be quite a lot of Ghost Pop out there.  Lokomotor, themselves, describe the music they strive to make as "glowing, radiant, generous" (rough Google translation).  And though (perhaps) "arising from the ancient spirits", Lokomotor wants their music untethered to the conventional.  To, um, steal a phrase, they want their music to "boldly go where no music has gone before".  Otherwise, they say (in German, of course), what's the point?  Philosophically, they want their music to "celebrate eternal hope, non-coerced freedom and dangerous love."

All I know is this is gorgeous stuff and I'm happy to have taken the flight with them.  The most Christmasy sounding track, to my mind, is "Ein Lied Das Bleibt".  But that's just me.  For all I know, they're singing "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" or "All Hail Satan" or even "It's 180 degrees outside on this July afternoon".  But.....it's so gorgeous.  Grab "Winter" with both hands at Noisetrade.