Nowhereland (EP) by Louis Lingg and the Bombs

We're releasing this record with the amazing record label, Blocsonic. We're big supporters of creative commons and you can download a cool pdf booklet here: https://blocsonic.com/releases/louis-lingg-and-the-bombs/nowhereland

In terms of songwriting, 2020 to 2021 has been the driest creative period of my life. ...And all the single people without children posting about the 5 new concept albums they just wrote on Facebook in just one bloody week hasn't helped at all! Honestly! Some people seem to be positively inspired by being in a hellish lockdown!

Anyway, I felt completely drained of all creativity and hope. I discovered that a pandemic, with no hope of ever coming out the other end with any semblance of a decent life, is not a creative situation for me. Suprise suprise!

I normally write songs professionally for clients. So I did finish all the outstanding songs and mixes that I had to do for work that I had already got before Covid hit us but I didn't feel any creative impulse at all to do music. What’s the point of music if there’s no society anymore? Culture needs a society to hang on to. Music's about communication and there's no communication in a completely alienated population.

In the end, by force of attrition, I forced myself to write again. I wrote a couple of songs. Nowhereland was the best one. (I had actually started it before Covid but the lyrics really took on meaning in the bleakness of the pandemic.) We recorded Nowhereland and another song, No Joke, in our rehearsal studio in May and June 2020. The lyrics are pretty brutal, fragmented and disjointed because I had to show the callous and barbaric reality of the situation. The music is bright and sunny though! I actually think that it’s one of our best songs. It’s certainly the best thing we’ve done in terms of production… so that’s something considering than we did it with no budget at all! My friend Lewis said that Nowhereland sounds like a worldwide pandemic anthem! That’s the cunning plan!

Tracklist

1.	Nowhereland	2:51

2.	The Dispossessed	2:42

3.	Nowhereland (mGee remix)	2:54

4.	The Dispossessed (Spiedkiks remix)	3:26

5.	Freaky Deaky (OWTRIPLEBANG Remix)	2:50

6.	Freaky Deaky (Die Leere im Kern deiner Hoffnung Remix)	3:00

7.	The Dispossessed (Ruder Gonzo Remix)	4:06

8.	Nowhereland (Instrumental)	2:52

9.	The Dispossessed (Instrumental)	2:41

Credits

released September 3, 2021

All songs written by Louis Lingg and the Bombs
Recorded and mixed by Joshua Hudes
Assisted by Joseph Vandendriessche

Nowhereland and The Dispossessed mastered by Streaky

Remixes by various artists

License

CC BY-NC 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.