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Artificial Lake

by NOUK

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"Artificial Lake" is the second Single of NOUK's upcoming debut album "Figures Afloat" which will be released on October 28th 2022.

This song is about shaking up and wanting to unleash.
At the center of the narrative is a person who has lost touch with reality. It’s about heavy liquids, unresolved emotions and building up a wall around the own body, preventing it to fall apart.
The "artificial lake" is a metaphor for all the sadness and depression the person has accumulated inside, as well as the alcohol he pours on top of it. His body is like a dam that is about to burst, but it keeps accumulating more and more sadness, depression and heavy liquids, slowly poisoning itself from within. He keeps turning in circles around the same trains of thoughts over and over again, not being able to escape the wicked mental pattern.
In the song, an “intangible mess” is described, an emotional chaos that one is no longer able to see through. And yet you only wish that the dam would break, that the flood would wash everything clean, and that you would finally be able to meet and understand each other again. He tries to hold it all together, but it starts to crumble slowly and I observe it with relieve, fear and disturbing anticipation.

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lyrics

I tried to break the pattern
But your artificial lake is too big
Too scared to overflow

Isolated lonesomeness
Spread out memories
All to the smallest detail
Reality left behind

Spread out memories
Like melting water
Polluting everything
And all that’s left is an

Intangible mess
Intangible mess

Filling up all your tanks
Burst, burst, show me all your insides
I am sick of your hesitation
Burst, burst and let the water run free

Intangible mess
Intangible mess

Soaking wet and still crumbling cookiewise
Soaking wet and still not empty
Soaking wet and no tears left to dry
Soaking wet and still crumbling cookiewise

Crumbling cookiewise
Crumbling cookiewise
Crumbling cookiewise

I tried to break the pattern
But your artificial lake is too big
Oh, let it overflow
Let just a trickle run through

No flower ever blooms in even pattern
Oh, give me just a little drip
Until you can see through your
Intangible mess

Soaking wet and still crumbling cookiewise
Soaking wet and still crumbling cookiewise
Soaking wet and still crumbling cookiewise
Soaking wet and still crumbling cookiewise

Crumbling
Crumbling

credits

released July 29, 2022
NOUK are
Anna-Lucia Rupp (vocals, bass)
Max Grüner (guitar, vocals)
Alma Stolte (cello)
Maria Körner (viola)
Felix Demeyere (drums)

ARTIFICIAL LAKE was
recorded by Max Grüner
mixed by Jonas Dannecker
mastered by Bernhard Range
released by o-cetera records
cover artwork by Mathias Fleck

The music video was directed by Loida García

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NOUK Dresden, Germany

Hi. We are NOUK.
We're an indietronic & chamber pop band based in Dresden and Leipzig. Sometimes string lines interweave with guitar and vocals to create a filigree poem setting, then drums, synth basses and circulating piano patterns build up into colorful arrangements.

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