The Lanskies

The Lanskies don’t just make songs—they make collisions. Frontman Lewis Evans spits fire and charm in equal measure, a sharp-tongued preacher wired on electricity, while Florian von Kunnsberg bends his guitar into shapes guitars were never meant to take. Together, they sparked the chemical reaction that burned straight through Britpop swagger and coldwave shadows, fusing them into their own renegade genre: hotwave. With Liverpudlian firebrand Lewis Evans, German guitar architect Florian von Kunnsberg, Sheffield-born bass newcomer Anthony Cox, and the French powerhouse duo Antoine Cadot (drums) and Alex Paul (lead guitar), The Lanskies now stand as a cross-continental hotwave strike force. Onstage, The Lanskies are a controlled detonation: riffs that bite, rhythms that won’t behave, and a feverish energy that feels like the floor might split open at any second. They don’t perform; they erupt. This April, they return with War Machine, a record forged like a weapon—angular, urgent, and unapologetically alive. It’s The Lanskies at full voltage, carving their initials into the present tense and daring anyone to look away.