{"id":141257,"date":"2025-07-10T16:03:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T20:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/?post_type=records&p=141257"},"modified":"2025-07-10T16:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T20:29:07","slug":"laura-krieg-crepuscule","status":"publish","type":"records","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/records\/laura-krieg-crepuscule\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Krieg – Cr\u00e9puscule"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In my eyes, Laura Krieg can do no wrong. Her brand of darkwave and post-punk\u2014something she likes to call “brutalist pop,”\u2014always puts me into a deep imaginary euphoria, one where I’m in a gloomy, lightless club, surrounded by mirrors in Kreuzberg, Berlin, sipping the same beer. Though her sound is certainly more widely accepted in a place like Europe (where her label, Detriti Records is absed), she, in fact, based in Montreal and plays here every now and then. Since I discovered her in 2021, around the release of her EP, Vie magique<\/em>, I’ve craved more of this brutalist pop, and now I have it with this latest batch of songs Cr\u00e9puscule<\/em>. It’s a shadowy and synth-laden album that wears its influences like a leather trench coat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From the first pulses of analog drum machines to the last whisper of detuned pads, the record feels like a deliberate ode to late-night walks under jittering sodium lights\u2014brooding, cinematic, and occasionally hypnotic. At its best, Cr\u00e9puscule<\/em> taps into a rich lineage of darkwave and minimal synth: think early Cure, mid-era Depeche Mode, and traces of coldwave \u00e0 la French cold wave artist, Trisomie 21. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The opener and title track layers a throbbing bassline, brittle snares and distant, disaffected vocals\u2014a soundscape that\u2019s both claustrophobic and darkly expansive. \u201cCorps brilliants,\u201d a standout, introduces some welcome melodic lift with synths and a robotic guitar (courtesy of Johny Couteau) with a chorus that dares to shimmer, recalling the poppier edge of the genre without selling out its gloom. We get this vibe a little later on during “Criminal video.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cr\u00e9puscule<\/em> builds a dimly lit world and invites you to sit with it, quietly. Whether it haunts or makes you want to dance may depend on your own mood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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