{"product_id":"anja-huwe-codes-oxblood-lp","title":"Anja Huwe - Codes [Oxblood LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter Xmal Deutschland’s success with four albums on cult labels such \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eas 4AD, Huwe abandoned music to pursue her visual art career. But \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eleaving her legacy in the past was not so easy. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDuring the pandemic Huwe reconsidered her decades-long hiatus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003efrom music. With a push by her longtime friend Mona Mur - a singer, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esongwriter and film music composer (as well as the frontwoman of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eearly-80s project Mona Mur \u0026amp; Die Mieter) - Huwe decided to join Mur \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein Berlin. Together with Manuela Rickers, guitarist and collaborator \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein Xmal Deutschland, they tossed around music and poetic ideas that \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewould eventually become the album Codes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInitially inspired by the diary entries of Moshe Shnitzki, who, at the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eage of 17, left his home in 1942 to live in the cavernous White Russian \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eforests as a partisan, Codes is about the human experience and what \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eextremes can do to an individual. “The result is a poetic, musical cosmos \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethat encompasses the following themes: forest, fear, pain, loss, violence, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand loneliness but also beauty, longing, hope and the will to survive,” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHuwe explains. These thematic extremities cause an erraticism to Codes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- a passing thunderstorm, a cyclonic burst of nature’s force - but one that \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexudes anticipation amidst the chill.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith elegant production by Mur and Huwe and mixing and mastering \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eby Jon Caffery (Joy Division, Gary Numan, Einstürzende Neu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebauten) epic builds crash and disseminate, the sleek synthesized drones \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof sound even feel claustrophobic at times.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eXmal Deutschland, now marked as forerunners of the post-punk move\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ement, were never complacent but consistently ravenous in their attack \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethroughout the 1980s. Huwe’s return is no different. Unexpected but \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003elong overdue, Codes is that missing page from post-punk’s history books, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe freshly splayed paint across the decades-old canvas - it is the product \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof the tireless will to survive on her own terms.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSkuggornas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRabenschwarz\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePariah\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eO Wald\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eZwischenwelt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSleep With One Eye Open\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiving In The Forest\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHideaway\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 843563171004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sacred Bones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 3.8.24\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Sacred Bones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48703216124119,"sku":"274213","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/5530\/9271\/files\/4289824-3092276.jpg?v=1780451843","url":"https:\/\/licorice-pizza-records.myshopify.com\/products\/anja-huwe-codes-oxblood-lp","provider":"Licorice Pizza Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}