February was definitely a better month in some ways, and its music releases are testament to the different energy that it brought about. We listened to 58 independent and underground albums, EPs and singles and we created the soundtrack of the month that took us on an electro/industrial, punk, darkwave, synthwave, post-punk trip which had neoclassical and black metal moments of brilliance as well.
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Album Review-Hotel Lux: Hands Across the Creek
Posted: 19th February 2023 by blaue-rosen in Album reviewsTags: albums reviews, Hotel Lux debut album 2023, Hotel Lux Hands Across the Creek 2023, indie rock albums 2023, indie rock music, music reviews, new bands 2023, new music 2023, review, The State 51 Conspiracy album releases 2023
1.Old Timer /2. Common Sense /3. National Team /4. Eastbound and Down /5. Strut /6. Morning After Mourning /7. An Ideal for Living /8. Points of View /9. Eazy Being Lazy /10. Solidarity Song
Release date: 27 January 202
Label: The State 51 Conspiracy
…or else an ode to a disenfranchised leftist youth
First things first – it has been a while since a band has put messages across in such powerful ways. Indeed, it has been about five years since the release of such a powerful album by a different band aimed at an audience with similar political beliefs but a very different idiosyncrasy. Hotel 
Lux are named after a safe house hotel in Moscow to which communists were exiled, though it failed in its mission as a lot of them ended up being killed during Stalin’s purges. The band, however, has been steadily making its mark since 2017, ever since their surreal song (full with political allegory), ‘The Last Hangman‘. That song, and the accompanying video, left us anticipating their debut album.