Strasbourg trio Heimberg tilt into the anxious hours of twilight with “It Keeps Me Up (All Night)”, the second single from their forthcoming debut album Faceless. “A hymn to the blurred identities,” the track doesn’t unfold like a conventional song but like a dream slipping out of grasp. Hypnagogic in structure, it conjures that liminal state where you hover between waking and sleep, visions rushing in with the force of a night terror. Bass snarls through static haze, guitars flicker with ghostly reverb, and a drum machine hammers an inescapable grid. What emerges is not release but a cycle tightening inward—a ritual of insomnia, endlessly rewound.
There is something unmistakably Lynchian here—less the empty irony of minimalism, more the hallucinatory dream logic of Twin Peaks, where intimacy turns uncanny and familiar faces transform into strangers. Like a doppelgänger glimpsed in the corner of a dream, the track embodies the terror of identity dissolving in half-light, recalling the disorientation of Lost Highway or the chromatic dread of Blue Velvet. The bassline prowls like an intrusive thought you can’t dispel, the guitars stretch into sheets of metallic resonance, and percussion strikes with mechanical inevitability, as if the body is straining to lift from the bed but remains pinned in paralysis.
Lyrically, words are pared back to near-incantation. They loop in restless half-light like phrases overheard in a dream, sharpening with each return. Heimberg allows repetition to do the unsettling work—each cycle digging deeper, meaning shifting until it becomes menace. The result is a mantra of sleeplessness, where language itself seems to wear a new mask with every turn.
It Keeps Me Up (All Night) sits at the intersection of obsession and erosion, a spiral with no horizon. It plays out as a hymn to the restless body, to nights where the face in the mirror flickers between stranger and accomplice. With their debut, Faceless, Heimberg seizes this intensity and magnifies it, sculpting songs less like structures of sound and more like waking visions—claustrophobic, unmoored, and alive with the unease of a dream you cannot wake from.
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Due out on Halloween via Icy Cold Records, their upcoming debut album Faceless positions Heimberg as architects of disquiet. Their sound draws from the half-dream states of Lynch’s most haunting work, music that doesn’t soothe but unsettles, where monotony becomes mantra and mantra becomes mirror. The release follows “Fragrance”, the album’s first single, which set the stage with its own brooding tension. In a year crowded with a melange of sounds, It Keeps Me Up (All Night) stands apart as a night terror pressed into song.
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