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23 2023
LEPROUS Frontman EINAR SOLBERG Launches “Home” Single Feat. BEN LEVIN
Today sees the launch of the fourth track taken from the album, and the final single before the album is released. Home is a collaboration with Ben Levin (ex-Bent Knee) and is perhaps the biggest curveball on the album. The video was directed by Elena Sihida and features live footage recorded at Prognosis Festival last month, as well as video of the first performance Einar ever did on stage.
Einar recently performed his first ever live shows for this project at Prognosis in the Netherlands and UK, and has just been confirmed to play this years edition of Euroblast in Germany. His band for these shows is Hrafnkell Örn Guðjónsson (Agent Fresco), Ben Levin (ex-Bent Knee), Chris Baum (Bent Knee), Ari Karason (Mezzoforte) and Ruben Aksnes (Maraton).
Einar Solberg is as renowned for the tender honesty of his lyrics as he is for the eccentric majesty of Leprous music. But even by his usual standards, 16 is an extremely emotional and dynamic piece of work. Einar describes the record as the closest Ive ever come to writing a concept album and explains that the new songs are about a very specific and transformational period in the musicians life. This is the sound of a restless spirit in his absolute element.
Its called 16 because thats when the first really, really bad things started happening to me in life. From 16 to 19, there were a lot of very life-defining moments that happened to me, and that changed me, he says. Thats when I kind of lost my innocence and I started realising that life is serious and bad shit can happen. A lot of pretty drastic things happened within those three years. But this album is not only about the bad things. Its also about some of the career-defining moments, like the moment I started playing with the band and began to find a community to belong to. Emotionally, Im a bit of everything, so it covers the entire emotional spectrum!
16 finds Einar collaborating with everyone from modern prog contemporaries like Bent Knees Ben Levin and Agent Frescos Toti Gudnason, to experimental cellist (and regular Leprous live musician) Raphael Weinroth-Browne and Magnus Børmark, best known as a member of Norwegian alt-folk troupe Gåte. He also once again collaborates with Ihsahn and Star Of Ash amongst many others. The record was mixed by mixed by Adam Noble (Placebo, Biffy Clyro, Nothing But Thieves) and mastered by Robin Schmidt (The 1975, Placebo, The Gaslight Anthem, etc.).
16 will be released on Ltd CD Digipak, Gatefold 180g 2LP + LP-booklet & Digitally, and is now available to pre-order here.
Tracklisting:
"16" (feat. Raphael Weinroth-Browne)
"Remember Me"
"A Beautiful Life"
"Where All The Twigs Broke" (feat. Star Of Ash)
"Metacognitive" (feat. Raphael Weinroth-Browne)
"Home" (feat. Ben Levin)
"Blue Light" (feat. Asger Mygind)
"Grotto" (feat. Magnus Børmark)
"Splitting The Soul" (feat. Ihsahn)
"Over The Top"
"The Glass Is Empty" (feat. Tóti Guðnason)
"Home" video:
"A Beautiful Life" video:
"Grotto" video:
(Photo - Elena Sihida)
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