Straight Beats, softly shimmering synthesizers, a delicate guitar and a low,

dream-like voice – Levin Goes Lighty’s Debut “Dizzy Height” (out August

24, 13 on Treibender Teppich Records) fuses the entire Lo-Fi spectrum into

one conclusive whole. The result are songs like the casually cool

no-wave-stomper “Metropolis” or the incandescent beach pop of “Feeling”.

These minimalistic songs carry a dense, almost visible atmosphere.

Anyone who has ever been to the Stuttgart Nordbahnhof, where decommissioned

railroad wagons form an artists’ village behind which the tracks

are rusty and have stood unused for ages, will instantly understand where

the record’s lucidity, serenity and gl ittering sounds have their roots.

Levin is a 24-year-old art student who lives and works in one of these discarded

wagons. His music is inspired by this fl air of being at once in the midst

and at the edg e of the city, as well as by his wildl y overgrown, industrial

surroundings.