Englbrt releases new single Godspeed

How do you stay awake in a world that refuses to let you sleep? We are drowning in information in a world, where reality and fiction merge to a point that they become inseparably entangled. Everything becomes a distraction: even art risks being reduced to mere decoration. How do we wake from a capitalist nightmare when we are already drifting through it half-asleep?

Referencing David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and drawing on Joseph Beuys’ concept of social sculpture, the first single entitled Godspeed of the upcoming ENGLBRT EP “SONG(E)S” is a farewell to a world of deceleration. If we can no longer distinguish the fake from the real, or sleep from wakefulness, we may find ourselves permanently suspended in a dream — for better or worse.

“After visiting the Block Beuys exhibition while on tour some years ago, I found myself typing the following lines into my phone: “Beuys will be Beuys / I go through the ceiling / If this is l’art pour l’art / then this is what I needed.”

The exhibition resonated with me in a particular way. Beuys proposed the idea of “social sculpture”: the notion that everyone is an artist — not in the conventional sense, but in the sense that each of us possesses creative agency and therefore a responsibility to use it. For Beuys, society itself is the artwork, shaped continuously by human action and thought. To say that “everyone is an artist” is to say that everyone participates in forming the social body we inhabit. The first lines of the song, written randomly on the tour bus, defined its overall theme and stayed with me ever since: how to remain active in shaping the world while being constantly lulled by a consumerist culture of memes and algorithmic noise.”

Musically, “Godspeed” is a driven electro-krautrock track that captures the urgency of modern times. Straightforward drum machines, repetitive beats, and layered synthesizers create a haunting sonic landscape that carries the listener forward. The song builds steadily toward a catchy yet unsettling chorus that offers rather confrontation than consolation.

“Godspeed” was recorded in 2025 at HOLTZ Studios in Luxembourg. Across several sessions with producer Charles Stoltz, ENGLBRT developed the track through a dynamic back-and-forth process between live performance and studio production. By constantly testing song versions on stage and re-injecting that energy into the recording process, the band preserves a raw, authentic sound — bridging the gap that often exists between live performance and studio recordings. For ENGLBRT, maintaining the same intensity and energy in the studio as in their live performances is essential. The track was mixed by Kristofer Göransson in Stockholm.

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ABOUT ENGLBRT

ENGLBRT is the collaborative duo of Georges Goerens and Niels Engel. The astonishing partnership sounds effortless thanks to the chemistry between two of Luxembourg’s most prolific and respected musicians. Like a well-adjusted science experience, they carefully draw from a vast field of source materials to achieve genre-defying results. After being active in acclaimed projects within the Luxembourgish music scene, both musicians retreated into renowned culture hub Kulturfabrik to eventually come up with ENGLBRT's distinctive sonic palette, laying the groundwork of future recordings with first single ‘Harm'.

Both musicians draw on a long legacy of omnivorous instrumental and genre-bending music, with a sound that is slow and widescreen, incorporating elements of electronica, contemporary jazz and well-crafted indie-pop. As if working from a lab setting, the duo isolates samples from their common musical lexicon to unearth hidden relationships, always leading to the discovery of enticing combinations. Those first experiments and songs shaped the nature of the collaboration resulting in their debut EP Odes to Everything released on the Berlin-based label Listenrecords in 2023. Taking cues from the endless scroll of everyday life, ENGLBRT delivers a dazzling soundtrack to our accelerated culture, shaping new sonic possibilities in the process.