While the Naked Lunch share their name with the William Burroughs book, their music is about as far from that particular tome as is possible to get. So if you're expecting nightmarish visions, disjointed narrative and an all round headfuck you're going to be sorely disappointed. Don't worry though, because that disappointment will fade within minutes of entering Naked Lunch's world.
Despite a particularly chequered past, it would appear that none of this makes it way in to Naked Lunch's music or Oliver Welter's songwriting. Military of The Heart is a beautiful love song that throbs with positive vibes and emotion. Similar in tone to Sigur Ros and dEUS, Military of The Heart is far from an aural assault.
Instead this is an ethereal expedition into the meaning of love that can't fail to break your heart with its sincerity. Too often we hear lines like "I hope I die right in your arms" and they lack any kind of honesty. Oliver Welter fills each line with sentiment while behind him his band build a track imbibed with pure passion.
Naked Lunch make music that simultaneously celebrates the human condition whilst pointing out that it ultimately it will all end in tears. Nothing wrong with a good cry every now and then though is there?
share with:
