LPF12 – Pending (EP – LPF12)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, IDM.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: Sascha Lemon strikes back with a new EP featuring five songs. The work is an appetizer to the announced new album “Stay”.
Content: Both debut songs are taken from the upcoming opus. The opening piece reveals a danceable and even club-driven song, mixing power and sound intelligence. We next get a true Cinematic piece. The other songs left are also more into Cinematic music, creating abyssal- and space-like atmospheres.
+ + + : The German artist again brings his IDM influence from the past years together with the Cinematic sound from the past releases. The title song opening the EP is one of the best cuts I’ve heard from LPF12. It’s an overwhelming and intelligent piece of music carried by a heavy kick and cool samplings. But there’s also something to say about the other tracks. “You’re Not” is not just Cinematic music but also reflects great sound treatments featuring low, vibrating sound waves and slow rhythms.
– – – : I still prefer the IDM side so I regret there are no more songs like “Pending” featured.
Conclusion: “Pending” is more than simply a teaser to announce the new album; it is already a fully accomplished piece of music by this artist.
Best songs: “Pending”, “You’re Not”, “Kontra”.
Rate: 7½.
Artist: www.lpf12.de / www.facebook.com/LPF12SL
“pending ep.” was released on 13 March 2022 as a self-released digital EP. It holds five tracks: “pending”, “stay”, “kontra”, “you’re not” and “remains”. Sascha Lemon wrote, performed, produced and mixed the music and handled the cover manipulation.
Side-Line reviewed the two preceding LPF12 full-lengths, “Poems For The Dark Matter” and “A Clear Bright New Sky”, in 2021. The next album, “Contours Of Stillness”, followed in December 2022.
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About LPF12
LPF12 is the solo project of German musician Sascha Lemon, who has been producing electronic music since 1992. The project mixes IDM, cinematic electronics and ambient textures, and Lemon releases most of the material himself.
Side-Line first covered the project with “The Changing Season”, issued on Raumklang Music in 2016. A long run of self-released titles followed, among them “Missiles” and “Conclusion” in 2017, “Differ”, “Whiteout5”, “A Quiet Place” and “Tranquil Heights” in 2018, “An Integral Part Of Nothing” and “A Calm Heart Beating” in 2019, and “Black Flags Ahead”, “Million Mile Memory”, “The Weight Of Letting Go” and “A Violent Silence” in 2020.
After “pending ep.” the project continued with the EP “Cargo” in 2023, the album “Burn The World Quietly” in 2024 and “tiltedStage” in 2025.
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