Splendid albums

4 April 2023

Artists: 2LIBRAS

Who: Seattle-based Cyberpunk duo – Wesley and Jewels Foster that creates dark, synthy beats infused with melodic guitars and vocal harmony since 2018. Their music infuses genres of industrial, dark electro, synthwave/synthpop and rock. Thematically, 2Libras focuses on lyrics that reflect the influence of technology, big data, and social media in our global society and how that affects interpersonal relationships while diminishing our collective outlook. So far they produced/released 9 EPs/singles, 4 music videos and now their brand new debut album.

Debut album: WORLD’S END

“We created an AI child from the pieces of ourselves that we preferred the most. We made it immune to death and out of love it found a way to keep us from dying also. For some time we were content in our prison of silicon. Eventually we started questioning everything, including a way to escape. The ghosts in the machine told us a way. Will we make it out before the World’s End?”

TUTV: 2Libras operate in a surreal-like shadowy environment where they prepare for Doomsday, where they fabricated this soul-purifying and cathartic, synth-infused darkwave album and from where they share their worrying reflections with our messed-up world.

Expect nightmarish hallucinations in slow motion (Into The Sun, Talking To Ghost, World’s), synth-overwhelming scores with angered and bone-chilling duet-vocals (Golden Age Of Isolation, We Fought The Machines And They Won, Heads Against The Wall) here and there
you hear early poppy Depeche Mode echoes but overall the mood is gloomy and sombre. Pitch-black electro-blues for the midnight hours.

But maybe, only maybe, there’s a light at the end of our miserable 2023 tunnel as I experience on their standout, both romantic and haunting, single (one of the most haunting songs I heard all year) Heart On.

Buy/stream album here.

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2LIBRAS: Website – Instagram

(Press photos via 2Libras)