‘Houston Morphine’ is taken from Laddermen’s debut album Special Kind of Violence out 2021 on Waterfall of Colours.

self-medicated at your funeral
apparently I spoke I did well
that's good
apparently I shook the hand of everybody that knew you 

blood count low morphine high
understand this is goodbye
blood count low morphine high
did you understand that this was goodbye

self medicated at your funeral
apparently I spoke I did well
that's good
apparently I shook the hand of everybody that knew you 

blood count low morphine high
understand this is goodbye
blood count low morphine high
did you understand that this was goodbye

good bye
good bye
good bye
good bye

Houston Morphine

There you were in the other
there you were in the other
there you were in the other room
I could hear you sleeping
I could hear you dreaming 
in the other room
I could hear you dreaming
with the tv on
the dim light at my window 
I sit and stare
at the building outside my window

I sit and stare 
at the building outside my window

In The Other

THE SILENT YEAR

Tasteless Craving

Dancing In The Shadow

A garage punks take on a post punk track.

Echo Fields Single

Echo Fields

A track I was working on a month ago, wanted to add lyrics but I didn't have any good ideas so it goes here for now

Freier Fall

“Tutan|<hamun” is the 3rd single off Plattenabau’s upcoming album Shape / Shifting, out February 11, 2022 on Dedstrange. Sounding like early The Cure on a bad acid trip, 'Tutan|<hamun” explores ideas of worship and monument building in the era of false idols and broken dreams. A tight rockabilly drum beat and commanding bassline lock horns in a conversation that is pierced and tossed in every angle as synths and delayed vocals crash and burn over the top. “Tutan|<hamun” is the anthem for post idealogical worship and for forgotten monuments that were never built.

Shape / Shifting

Tutan|<hamun

Plattenbau - Tutan|<hamun

coming around

If You Can Feel(You Can Love)

Do you have an off button(Sped)

Laddermen is the Texas Post-Punk project of Leopold Oakes, blending rusty reverb guitars with stripped-back acoustic elements to craft the soundtrack for anyone chasing ghosts on cracked asphalt. Moving effortlessly between bittersweet restlessness and rooted melancholia, Laddermen gains comparisons to the likes of Modest Mouse, The Strokes, and Interpol. The highly acclaimed debut album Special Kind Of Violence 2021 charted at number 2 on iTunes Switzerland and got praised as “One of the most beautiful albums of 2021” by Tagesanzeiger.    

On the heels of his debut release, Laddermen played a run of live shows crowned with an appearance at Wave Fest Rotterdam (NL) alongside Post-Punk trailblazers Pink Turns Blue. Special Kind Of Violence defined Laddermen’s undeniable position in the scene as having “articulate urgency” by postpunk.com. The momentum lead to a herald of new singles and the release of his sophomore album, ‘Life Got Lame And Now You’re Bored’ 2024 which landed on Spotify Editorial playlists and reached new heights of refined Post-Punk. The album is the story of sailors falling out of love with their ships, broken ponies leaving their stables, and a nostalgia for moments not yet experienced.    

With a new frontier closing in, Laddermen rides shotgun into a rugged, introspective terrain : a restless boy from Texas pioneering through the isolating metropolis and neon pollution of fading memories. The upcoming releases strip away the polish, trading it for razor wire honesty and is a gritty aching howl for the modern outlaw’s with uncertain tomorrows.