2024-04-27 23:44:45
The Mexican scene of Post Punk and the Darkwave is not new, and currently, it has gained great strength and notoriety thanks to projects such as Stranger and Lovers, who have captivated the audience with their sound of darkness and their erotic themes.
“I think that in Mexico we have taken advantage of the international milestone that these genres have had and in itself a scene that was strong but very niche, mixed between the new and the old and began to offer a great variety of sounds and visions, but with high-quality projects that make Mexicans themselves look at the music made in our country at the same level as the international one,” he said. Axel, vocalist and leader of Stranger and Lovers, in an interview with this medium.
This group is an example of the growth and international projection of this current scene, since in five years they have managed to make their mix of dark sounds sound in style.
“I think it has been a relatively short time that we have been active, but we worked a lot on the project, investing effort, sacrificing moments and things, but we feel comfortable with this way of working and it has helped us.” very good result well in front of the public.
“That is the nature of the band, each one has its identity and its way of working.”
and ours is that, which happened without forcing us or anything. “That’s just how it happened,” he said. Axel.
This rhythm has led the band to leave, to a large extent, what is considered the scene underground To make way for being recognized and invited to much larger and more professional forums, one of those first steps was to play at the Wave Gotik Treffen festival in Germany.
“It feels really good to get to a place like that, to have your music recognized in that way. Personally, it was like graduarnos, to become as big as there can be as such an important festival of this genre. There were unique moments like going down to the breakfast buffet and the 40 people there were from legendary bands.
“Entering a more professional field suddenly seems distant and unattainable because it is heard that you have to have “levers” and money and the truth is the only lever that has made us get here in our music and our effort and I feel proud of it. ”he continued.
On the theme attached to eroticism that it has Stranger and Lovers, Alex explained that he wanted to get out of the “common places.”
“We took the concept because we didn’t want to go with the typical thing about vampires and death, so we tried to offer something that is a little closer to our private life and we wanted to express it in this way,” he said.
The band’s style is difficult to pigeonhole into a genre, as they let the sounds take their own route; However, they are always within the dark sounds of the
post punk, darkwave y EBM.
The first presentation of this 2024 by Stranger and Lovers It will be with the Turks from She Past Away on May 4 in the West Pavilion, where the band’s previous songs and their new material soon to be published, titled P3rv3rt.
“We premiere songs that have not been played live, we bring a new image and technical elements that we had never used and of course, we feel honored to be a guest band with She Past Away and no longer an opening band,” he concluded.
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2024-04-27 23:44:45