The Frozen Autumn – Pale Awakening (2 × Vinyl, Blue)Label: Avantgarde Music / AV447LPFormat: 2 × Vinyl, Album, Reissue, BlueCountry: ItalyReleased: 2022Style: New Wave, Synth-pop, Darkwave Pale Awakening is the debut album by The Frozen Autumn, which originally saw the light in 1995 following the demotape Oblivion and various live gigs in Italy and abroad. These led to the CD release of this concept album with crepuscular sounds, at times inspired by the sound of 4AD and Projekt Records, that unfold between reflective and atmospheric moments, imbued with melancholy with more rhythmic openings, yet always characterized by a common feature: the oniric plane, the certainty of the existence of parallel…
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Wind Atlas – An Edible Body
Wind Atlas – An Edible BodyLabel: Gradual Hate Records – GH 137 CDFormat: CD, Album, DigipakCountry: SpainReleased: 26 Jan 2018Style: Dark wave, Cold Wave, Post-Punk,Experimental An Edible Body, Wind Atlas’ new album, marks a turning point in the band’s trajectory. Their third record builds a new space for the band to experiment and play with new sounds and electronic rhythms. Strangely, An Edible Body is the band’s most experimental album and at the same time the most accessible. After a change in the band’s formation at the end of the Lingua Ignota (BFE, 2015) tour, Wind Atlas take a break from performing as to discover new sounds and work on…
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Opera Multi Steel – Réminiscences
Opera Multi Steel – Réminiscences (Vinyl, LP, Picture Disc)Label: Wave Records – W067Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered, Picture DiscCountry: BrazilReleased: 27 Dec 2017Style: Darkwave, Coldwave, New Wave, Minimal, Synthwave, Synth-pop Réminiscences is a selection of 8 standards of the band revisited in a more punchy and electro style compared to the original versions but preserving what made the specificity of the Opera Multi Steel sound. Indeed, on boosted rhythms and fully re-recorded vocals, those new versions use sounds and “historical” instruments cherished by the band since its beginnings: TR 808, TR 606, TB 303, Elex, Casio VL-1, recorders, medieval choirs and various samples. The texts have been preserved…
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Bleib Modern – Vale Of Tears
Bleib Modern – Vale Of TearsLabel: Wave Records – W059Format: CD, Album, Limited EditionCountry: BrazilReleased: 15 Feb 2016Style: Post-Punk, Coldwave, Shoegaze Limited edition of 500 hand-numbered/stickered copiesDigifile packagingArtwork is different from the vinyl editionTrack 6: Vale (exclusive instrumental to the CD version) The german post punk band Bleib Modern doesn’t sleep. after the first album ‘all is fair in love and war’. Bleib Modern became a band. Those five boys playing music together for many years – and that is what you will definitely hear in their new album ‘vale of tears’. It’s a mixture of the old style and many new influences like cold wave, shoegaze, noise rock and…
