V/A – United States Of Melancholia - Part I - Post Punk GDR 1982 - 1990 DLP Noiserock

V/A – United States Of Melancholia - Part I - Post Punk GDR 1982 - 1990 DLP NoiserockThe political revolt of punk was succeeded by the aesthetic adventure of post punk. During the Cold War, dark wave, gothic and industrial also had their equivalents under the unlucky star of the GDR. The title "United States Of Melancholia" refers to a shadowland behind the perpetually rising facade of construction and to a nationally ingrained melancholy that, in the GDR, seemed to well up from deeper strata beneath an officially prescribed cheer

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The fourth album from krautrock pioneers Ash Ra Tempel

the tortured grandeur of Radiohead

"Red Horse

piano interludes that create a subdued

most empowering) album ever: Double Negative

designed by Ilg Santer architects

I don't wanna read

alongside traces of formative influence from Skinny Puppy

and "an exciting milestone" by Pitchfork

they hit a real sweet spot

fashioned for snooping searchers and paranoid lurkers