Worship

Hanging Freud

“Because of what was going on, we were essentially stuck in temporary accommodation in Scotland, away from our studio and forced into a period unexperienced before. The songs that came out therefore come from a different Read more

“Because of what was going on, we were essentially stuck in temporary accommodation in Scotland, away from our studio and forced into a period unexperienced before. The songs that came out therefore come from a different place. Everything was done within a laptop and is proudly 100% digital. It was recorded and mixed while literally sitting on the side of a bed in a mouse infested apartment…”

This album will be released via Belgian label Spleen+ available in a digipak 2CD edition which includes Worship and an additional pressing of the Anomalies EP and on clear Torquiose/Violet 180g vinyl limited to a run of 150 per colour.

https://hangingfreud.bandcamp.com/album/worship

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    01 - Grooming 3:16
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    02 - Falling tooth 4:30
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    03 - I pray we keep the world 2:46
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    04 - A pact among the living 2:40
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    05 - This day 4:07
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    06 - A hand to hold the gun 3:49
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    07 - Come 4:18
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    08 - Her joy 3:26
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    09 - Beyond 4:42
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    10 - Don't save yourself for him 3:37
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‘’Glasgow-based duo HANGING FREUD join hands with the Belgian label Spleen+ for the release of “Worship”, their most personal and emotive full length so far.

On this 7th studio album, Paula Borges and Jonathan Skinner continue refining their unique sound identity that nobody has managed so far to narrow down to one specific music style, often evoking influences and elements of post punk, ethereal, synthgaze, cold wave, ambient pop or yet experimental electronica.

With the heartbeat of a drum machine as metronome, Paula’s vocals are dark, haunting, almost glacial, her enunciation is both plaintive and full of echoing fragile grace. While the cinematic music warps them all in a melancholic ethereal cocoon made of mechanical funeral melodies, icy minimal sequences and suffocating synth atmospheres. The overall ambience is dense, lingering, almost claustrophobic, but so poignant and uplifting that it takes you by the throat and touches you at the deepest end of your soul.

Strong from their somewhat nomadic past with multicultural backgrounds of coming from Sao Paulo (Brazil) and London (UK), HANGING FREUD sign here a timeless chef d’oeuvre full of beautifully dark simplicity, an emotional body of work that is uncompromising and genre defying at the same time. If you missed HANGING FREUD so far, the moment has come to fall under their freezing spell and addictively hit the play-button again and again.''