Leyya – Half Asleep

Half Asleep asks for conditions and more specifically: “Do I actually want this?”, putting one’s own body in relation to others (bodies, realities, rules). Leyya’s third album is egoless, full of uncompromisingness, the best of both worlds (Spanish Disco / Sauna). Analog sounds collide with digital sounds, instrumental boundaries become blurry and somewhere between phone sounds and a fast-forward production, they oscillate statelessly. Every sound is lovingly crafted and sounds almost harmoniously organic, contrary to the fast-moving circumstances and conventional production methods. Ambivalences are inscribed in Leyya and clearly noticeable in Half Asleep, between music and lyrics. The backward movement is therefore by no means a step back. After the pressure of playing live, the expectation of producing songs specifically for the stage and a certain feeling of having to live up to externally defined standards, the band is now finding its way back home, musically: Into the melancholic, mysterious, intimate.