LEPROUS

Livened-up return to Norwegian mavericks’ 2021 album.

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Aphelion (Tour Edition) INSIDEOUT From their early days as precocious prog revisionists to their current status as one of the most fascinating and original bands on the planet, Leprous have yet to put a foot wrong. First released in 2021, a full two decades after the band formed as teenagers in Norway, Aphelion is their seventh full-length and their most radical. An explosion of eclectic ideas and sumptuous arrangements, it felt less claustrophobic than 2019’s Pitfalls, as chief songwriter and frontman Einar Solberg’s art-pop sensibilities ran wild and free. Intense rather than heavy, angsty opener Running Low and the infectious new wave clatter of The Shadow Side gave Solberg’s mesmerising voice a more diverse backdrop than ever before. The haunting All The Moments and crestfallen electro-ballad On Hold are the…

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