Luise Pop Time Is A Habit

Luise Pop is a four piece band based in Berlin and Vienna. They are the latest signing to the indie label Siluh Records. Their album "Time Is A Habit" is due 13 Jan 2012 delivering irresistible surf noir guitar tunes and an approach shaped by their dedication to gender politics and their love for loner poetry.Rock'n'roll rubbing up against rigid electronics in a cascading melody of fireworks, surf noir banging against synth sounds in brilliant Technicolor as if The Drums, Le Tigre, Patti Smith and New Order would meet for a moonlight serenade at the Carnival of Souls. But beyond coquettish post-punk coolness we hear an echo of the Golden Age, in which a pop song could lift the world off its hinges in two and a half minutes. An intensity of the unfinished, more James Dean than Grace Kelley, more camp than glamour, a slackerish elegance of the ephemeral, paying hommage to the Dada Baroness: "we love you like hell." How do we know that heaven and hell are the same place? The difference lies in the heart of the beholder.A musical socialisation between Bronsky Beat and Bikini Kill as well as their academic and personal dedication to gender politics fused this band and manoeuvred it into the vicinity of what is known as "Diskurs Pop" in German with songs like Feminist Terrorist causing quite a stir...