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Gradient

by L I N

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kaffeeringe Great album and an even greater live performance! Favorite track: Seven Sisters.
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1.
Queer Lover 02:34
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2.
Fight Girl 03:01
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3.
Call Me What You Want 02:43
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4.
TPIP 02:53
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5.
Chameleon 03:21
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6.
Ablution 04:20
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7.
Bold 03:30
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8.
Atlas 03:28
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9.
Seven Sisters 05:12
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5 in 1. drums, synthesizer, guitar, bass and vocals. LIN is more than a solo artist, LIN is a solo band. From footswitches, cables, loop station and her instruments, the Berliner*in has built a cockpit for her music, with which she creates an stunning sound. Genre-wise somewhere between electro and pop: spherical, multi-layered, detailed and intense.
After a debut EP in 2020 and numerous acclaimed club and festival shows, LIN will release her debut album "Gradient" on September 1, 2023 on the Berlin-based label ListenRecords (including CATT, Charlotte Brandi, A Tale Of Golden Keys).
The songs are not only energetic and danceable but also explicitly political. In her lyrics, the queer artist* stages a world in which socially made norms are broken and set anew. "We need new norms" is what LIN demands in the opener "Queer Lover" - right away with the album's first breaths and thus sets the framework for the following 31 minutes.
The second song "Fight Girl" is without a doubt written THE song for any sporting event of the future - how fitting that the Women's World Cup is taking place this year! With a good dose of empowerment, it is a rousing pop song inspired by LIN's childhood soccer experiences, that didn't always make a young girl feel like an equal.
The following "Call Me What You Want" directly continues the socio-critical thread and continues in the dance mode: It is a declaration of war against all those who restrict the realities of queer people's lifes with their binary value system. The song changes the perspective and does not present queer people who move outside cis-heteronormative structures as the "problem", but those who want to defend this norm at all costs: "Do you really need a border, that makes me cross a line? To put things back to order - just so YOU feel fine".
"TPIP (the private is political)" is an almost compelling resulting statement. The song titled in such a way adds a calmer moment to the album for the first time: It comes along almost spring-like-relaxed. On the one hand, LIN sings about the love for her partner in "TPIP" and on the other hand, she calls for political struggle against any form of fascism. The song was written during a stay on the island of Lesbos in the vicinity of the burned refugee camp Moria in February 2021.
The catchy "Chameleon" is the fifth song on the album that invites you to sing along and represents LIN's further development since her debut EP, both musically and in terms of content - while "Colours" was still very much about the possibilities of life perspectives, LIN sounds much clearer and more aware of her own self-positioning now: "I cannot change my colors I am what I've become".
With "Ablution" LIN opens the picture level of "Gradient" - a song like a film, it could hardly be more impressive. No wonder that there is also an impressive video here, for which no more and no less than the fight against and the smashing and overcoming of the patriarchy was choreographically staged.
The following "Bold" nestles up to this pictorial force. In calm waters, LIN shows her flair for great melodies and the goosebump moments that come along.
Supposedly the following "Atlas" takes up this thread, but then blends into a dreamy summer evening song and exudes the appropriate floral scent. The flora image in the song addresses the personal responsibility of people for mother earth in the wake of climate change.
Towards the end of the album, LIN makes the connection to her outstanding live show. Every moment of the build-up song "Seven Sisters" feeds the image of the it ending in great ecstasy on stage and in the audience. Like the momentum of a spherical wave, with energy spreading in concentrical circles, LIN fuels her audience. Just a solo band.

credits

released September 1, 2023

All songs written and composed by LIN, except where noted.

Queer Lover // written by LIN & Zebo Adam, produced by Zebo Adam, additional production David Hoffmann

Fight Girl, Call Me What You Want, Seven Sisters // produced by Nik Heimfarth // additional production David Hoffmann & LIN

Chameleon, Atlas // written by LIN & Dominik Jahn, produced by Nik Heimfarth & LIN

Bold // produced by David Hoffmann & LIN // additional production Nik Heimfarth

Ablution // written by LIN & David Hoffmann, produced by David Hoffmann

All songs mixed and mastered by Nik Heimfarth

Artwork: Tanja M. Gleiser
Fotos: CAPADOL

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L I N Berlin, Germany

L I N connects synthetic sounds with organic ones. Synthesizer & drum pad meet guitar and voice, culminating in a sound, that interfaces somewhere between electro and pop. L I N is an explosive live artist, trying to give light pop music a deeper meaning, that keeps just the right distance to the abyss. ... more

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