I sank into unspoken love
into the depths of a dream
I allowed it to offer me what you forgot
And now need has transformed into pleasure
In the stark dawn’s glare, machines collide in brutal splendour, revealing stark falsehoods bathed in violent sunlight. Humanity’s synthetic guise melts into desires, artificial yet tender; dreams dissolve into the twisted embrace of necessity. Fate silently mocks mortality’s boundaries, blending bleak modernity and intimate longing into one disquieting hymn of shadowed yearning.
Modernism, night-soaked streets, the aching solitude of buses, and echoes of moments unheld: these elements construct the evocative realm of Πύργος Αθηνών (Pýrgos Athinón).
Distilling poetry through raw, mechanical filters, this anonymous project pays homage to Athens’ stark architecture and urban alienation, creating a striking collision of emotion and brutalism. Born from quarantine solitude, Πύργος Αθηνών is an enigmatic force without identity, a phantom presence blending analogue synths, gritty vocoders, and digital pulses. The result? A seamless blend of futurepop elegance and industrial tension, conjuring echoes of Nitzer Ebb’s hypnotic urgency, Anne Clark’s passionate poetry, and Cabaret Voltaire’s stark experimentation.
Πύργος Αθηνών is an expression through absence. Rejecting social media and personal profiles, the project hands narrative duties to Athens itself. The city’s “buildings, shadows, lights, and statues” voice human tales of longing and quiet despair.
“We express human feelings and experiences through the silent presence of Athens’ classical modernist buildings, through people who loved people, tearful eyes, shadows, and those who exhale their remaining time between structures, lights, and small green squares,” they explain.
The accompanying black-and-white video, shot on a long-abandoned phone from the early 2000s, shudders between memory and present-day clarity. It poses existential questions, blurring boundaries between past glories and contemporary decay. “Once, this lens was superior,” they muse. “Now, it captures a world that pretends to move forward. But what remains still? Do buildings remember us as clearly as we remember them? Do they mourn our restless passing?”
With sharp intensity, the footage interrogates humanity’s trajectory: “Does the gaze of humanity evolve, or does it merely blur? Is new technology truly new when filtered through yesterday’s dust? Amidst the deliberate visual degradation, truth sharpens. Each grainy frame asks, has the Leviathan already devoured us—or do we sail quietly upon its back, united and adrift? These are coordinates for those still looking. We’ll be waiting.”
Watch the video for ΛΕΒΙΑΘΑΝ below:
Following their initial EP, 210, and the gripping LP 11527 via Spain’s Soil Records, the latest release, cryptically titled 37°59′05″N 23°45′39″E / 37.984587°N 23.760874°E, emerges digitally and on cassette. It’s music that feels timeless yet immediate, a resonant echo trapped between nostalgia and harsh reality.
Listen to ΛΕΒΙΑΘΑΝ below and order 37°59′05″N 23°45′39″E / 37.984587°N 23.760874°E on digital and cassette here. We’ll let you discover the location of the co-ordinates yourselves.
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