Leyya, the Austrian duo, reveals, "That feeling of being in between two states of being is what we wanted to capture with our new single, "Half Asleep." The Return of Leyya is one of those songs that portrays a weightless sensation. It's an auditory tightrope between the digital and the analog, the conscious and the subconscious , a sonic experiment that's as heady as it is hypnotic.
A teaser of their upcoming namesake album, "Half Asleep," finds Sophie Lindinger and Marco Kleebauer stretching the definition of electronic craft, dusting warped digital landscapes over analog building blocks. The result? A track that sounds like a memory best left in the past suddenly surfaces, lingering, ghosting, textured, and beautifully unpredictable.
"Half Asleep is an album that attempts to find something in between sleeping and awake, digitally and analog, 1 and 0," says the band Leyya. "The duality of extinction and infinite sounds rendered inaudible, but preserved by being physically affected digitized vacuumed sounds produced to such uncanny levels of not-being that they are impossible to hear, but we are returning their emissions to a physical medium on which they can never be fully erased, where the residue of them will always exist as a physical object representing something forever in continuance [something like that]."
You feel this duality not just in the music's production but also in its themes. The lyrics grapple with the passage of time, the elusiveness of presence, and the tension of experiencing moments only once they've turned into memories. The pull of this interplay of contrasts, past and present, love and hate, waking and dreaming, is visceral enough to linger long after the last note disappears.
With "Half Asleep," Leyya takes us on a journey of falling asleep but not entirely, tip-of-the-tongue feelings and surrendering to the in-between, surrendering to the mystery. If the single is anything to go by, the whole GOAT will be an unmissable odyssey to the beauty of the liminal of existence."