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LAWIJT Cuts Right to the Core on 'LOST IN TRANSLATION.'
Ghent multi-instrumentalist Niels Strybos strips back three minutes of clutter to deliver an urgent, sharp-edged rock cut.
Working out of Ghent, Niels Strybos handles every part of the creative process under the name LAWIJT. His track 'LOST IN TRANSLATION.' zeroes in on that familiar breakdown when two people genuinely try to talk, yet manage to drift further apart with every word.
The song actually sat on a hard drive for over two years before Strybos made the call to chop three minutes off the original draft right before release. Trimming that excess gave the track real teeth, locking in a raw, driving sound that nods straight to bands like Placebo, Finch, and early Incubus.
On the map: LAWIJT – Ghent, Belgium on the INDIEINDEX Global Scene Map