Tomb For Two

Sadness is Rebellion is a powerful anthem that brilliantly opens the album with its quirky ghost-like and windswept synth with Larrisa Iceglass lyrical lamentation set to a jangly bass, and languid guitar solo. This is a pleasantly peculiar and empowering song celebrating the merits of sorrows and grief emotions we all feel, yet are quick to deny. Kindness is rationed so sparsely, and compassion is often denied. But is nostalgia denial? Or is it important as means to know that happiness can return? Regardless, the only path forward to move on from sadness is directly through it, and in this 21st century digital age, that truly is a rebellious act. Your Fork Moves is a German language philosophical thought experiment set to a darkwave dance groove led by dark bass and medieval organ synths. Here Iceglass ponders the meaning of existence in relation to the movement of utensils as a metaphor for agency, or a willing lack thereof. Stahlwerk is William Maybelline's gloomy encomium on the industrial landscapes of Berlin during Winter months where the days are short, the skies are grey, and the suns veiled until the return of spring. With it's eerie Steel drum intro, the song perfectly conveys the depressing atmosphere set to the Kraftwerkian precision of synthesizers and percussion. Hall of Ice is a frosty callback to the band's first album languidly sung by Miss Iceglass herself. The song beings with simple bass and drum machines giving way to the mesmerizing twinkle of xylophones. All of this amidst a romantic song entreats a partner to pirouetting on a pair of skates, celebrating the anthem "lose your digital life", if all but for a moment while engaging an icy interlude face to face. Gallowdance is perhaps Lebanon Hanover's magnum opus, their most well-known song whose artwork is the de facto logo for the band. It is a bass-driven Memento Mori. A sombre reminder to gather ye roses while ye may, as we all are dancing on the precipice of death, so we might as well d....