INVSN (Dennis Lyxzen of REFUSED) Debuts 80s Goth-Inspired 'I Dreamt Music' Video

INVSN releases the newest track for "I Dreamt Music," a post-punk gem for the band's forthcoming LP, The Beautiful Stories. The song's cadenced groove and dark tones is the perfect balance to the underlying message concerning consumerism and politics. Frontman Dennis Lyxzén is no stranger to incorporating political themes into his work, from his days fronting Refused to (international) Noise Conspiracy to INVSN.

Lyxzén shares his thoughts on how music is being exploited these days." Music always meant more to me then just entertainment. It has had a profound impact on everything that I am as a person and I see music as art and art as life. We live in a world devoid of meaning where we serve the lowest common denominator at all times. Where politics as an idea has failed us and where art is being reduced to consumerism and clickbait."

I wanted to write about the longing for resistance to the cultural/political/musical landscape that holds us imprisoned. I wanted to write about the naive, romantic and pretentious notion that music and art should be about ideas that can change and transform and maybe even be the beacon of hope in these dismal times."

"I Dreamt Music" serves as the fifth track for the band's sophomore album The Beautiful Stories, set to be released June 9th via Dine Alone Records.

LISTEN TO "I DREAMT MUSIC" HERE

About INVSN: Few other bands than INVSN have better conducted the heritage of the now legendary 90's hardcore scene in Umeå.

Its members have come together from a wide variety of influential Swedish bands. Sara Almgren hails from Masshysteri, Christina Karlsson from Tiger Forest Cat, Anders Stenberg alongside playing with Lykke Li is also a member of Deportees, André Sandström was in DS-13 and Dennis Lyzxén started out in the seminal punk outfit Refused before playing in The (International) Noise Conspiracy with longtime collaborator Almgren.

INVSN has always had a political message, but few other songwriters have the ability to add additional dimensions of existential struggle and soul-searching like Dennis Lyxzén. In our time, when many moral and deeply humanistic values are being challenged by right-wing movements all over the world, INVSN is a necessary outcry from a counter-culture that has far from given up. Their music might be rich in anger, but the belief that a change could be carried out is never far away. Recorded by Adam "Atom" Greenspan (Nick Cave, The Veils) at Svenska Grammofonstudion in Gothenburg, the album, which buzzes with eclecticism, wherein catchy indie rock with pop sensibilities exists alongside industrial electronics. This is post-punk underpinned by repressed anger and frustration serving as a punch in the face of a mendacious society.

1. Immer Zu
2. This Constant War
3. Bom Bom
4. The Distance
5. I Dreamt Music
6. Deconstruct Hits
7. Love's Like a Drug

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