Hailing from Berlin, noise-rock and punk outfit Berliner Lvft burst back onto the scene with a tense and dramatic offering on Exit. Between sparse guitars and drums, the verse holds the listener in an eerie state as the band’s singer expresses his current disappointment at the state of… well, let’s be honest, everything. The chorus helps to amp up the energy. Still, the real payoff for all this tension and stasis is the song’s incredible bridge, which lets the band finally cut loose and dip into a grunge-heavy sound as vocals soar between cymbal crashes and booming guitars.
Berliner Lvft positions themselves as a true rock and roll band, a punk group of outcasts who defy authority solely in the pursuit of making “the devil’s music.” With that being said, they are more in vogue than ever now. With lines like “The architects were blind / There is no exit here,” the group strikes a resonant chord with many as the present moment is ripe with global discontent. We are in a constant fight we cannot win or escape from, and it feels like there is genuinely no exit.
Exit is an incredibly effective encapsulation of the frustration, rage, disappointment, and disdain present in the reality of our everyday lives. These are the types of songs that we need more of. Berliner Lvft mixes the feelings of Rage Against the Machine with sounds from Sonic Youth and Nirvana that leave me anxiously waiting for more.
Written by Lando Flakes
