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Steve Luxembourg, *1993, is a singer-songwriter, composer, and visual artist, living and working in Southern Germany. After his first commercial releases in 2014, Luxembourg concentrated mainly on his studies of Fine Art at the University of Arts Braunschweig and on follow-up exhibitions and photographic works, for which he has already won national and international recognition (gute aussichten / FRESH EYES European Talent).
In autumn 2021, Steve Luxembourg retreated to the rural seclusion of a deserted hotel in Burgundy, FR, to write his current album On Starlings, which he proceeded to record and produce on his own during the winter and spring months of 2022 in his former studio space in Braunschweig. The 10 tracks got subsequently mastered at Fabian Tormin’s all analogue studio at Plätlin Mastering Hamburg.
Characterized by warm piano sounds and complex beats, by harmonium and bottleneck guitars, On Starlings builds up an intimate complexity, that hints at indie rock idols like The National or Bright Eyes, only to shift back into elegant distance in a chilling post-punk manner with driving bass and accentuated electronic sounds. Luxembourg's autobiographically influenced lyrics are permeated with motifs of personal change. The characters of his dark coming-of-age ballads are torn between the search for stability and security and the liberation from toxic relationships, to eventually lose themselves in the intoxication and loneliness that follows.
In autumn 2021, Steve Luxembourg retreated to the rural seclusion of a deserted hotel in Burgundy, FR, to write his current album On Starlings, which he proceeded to record and produce on his own during the winter and spring months of 2022 in his former studio space in Braunschweig. The 10 tracks got subsequently mastered at Fabian Tormin’s all analogue studio at Plätlin Mastering Hamburg.
Characterized by warm piano sounds and complex beats, by harmonium and bottleneck guitars, On Starlings builds up an intimate complexity, that hints at indie rock idols like The National or Bright Eyes, only to shift back into elegant distance in a chilling post-punk manner with driving bass and accentuated electronic sounds. Luxembourg's autobiographically influenced lyrics are permeated with motifs of personal change. The characters of his dark coming-of-age ballads are torn between the search for stability and security and the liberation from toxic relationships, to eventually lose themselves in the intoxication and loneliness that follows.
