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ARTIST
TITLE
Songs For The Exhausted
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
TR 604CD TR 604CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
2/20/2026

The year is 2000. After only ten years performing and recording, the Austrian group Naked Lunch had reached the end of the line. They had experienced a meteoric rise throughout the 1990s: less than four years had seen the group move from a mold-infested rehearsal room in an Austrian town to a five-star hotel on Times Square. Imagine endless tours, outrageously expensive recordings in studios from Bochum to New York, an extended stay in London and collapsed major-label deals -- imagine, essentially, what the band themselves called "an utterly pointless burning through money." Eventually, the group returned to their hometown. What remained were mostly disillusioning experiences in the pop business and a huge amount of debt. Having grown into a quartet, the band decided to hit the reset button and start over. Together with producer and friend Olaf Opal (including work with The Notwist, International Music, etc.), they barricaded themselves for almost three years in the newly built studio of bassist Herwig Zamernik to work on an album that would eventually be released in 2004 under the name Songs For The Exhausted. It became not only a milestone in the band's career. It was also, in a way, a farewell to an unrestrained era and an admission of the exhaustion that resulted from it. The album certainly isn't easy fare. The record is dark, at times even obstructive. Yet it has the ability to embrace, as Anja Plaschg alias Soap&Skin once put it, "to comfort us in feverish nights." 22 years after the original release, Songs For The Exhausted is now reissued on Tapete Records, finally available on vinyl!