Showing posts with label XTR HUMAN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label XTR HUMAN. Show all posts
Friday, April 23, 2021
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
XTR HUMAN Reveals Details For New Album 'G.O.L.D'
The follow-up to last year's Interior, will be released on June 11 via Berlin’s Braid Records and features his previous singles "Wie Ein Gott" and "LEBEN OHNE LICHT". Pre-order your copy here.
Though the hallowed halls of Berlin’s nightlife excess now sit cold, the sounds that once haunted their depths beat ever onward, and colder still. Birthed in these hushed plaguelands, XTR HUMAN’s new full-length G.O.L.D evokes the frozen melancholy of a post-pandemic city, driven ever onward by the impetus of night’s primary currencies: sweat, release and change.
The latest full-length from Johannes Stabel, G.O.L.D finds the German producer evolving as much as the rest of the world has had to. Taking his political and socially conscious lyrics into his native tongue brings a deeper and more powerful thrust to their weight—particularly at a time when Germany is weighing its own social consciousness after years of being seen as a leading world figure.
Across G.O.L.D’s ten tracks, Stable brings our zeitgeist into a new realm, where the anger and frustration at our current existence is refined into the energy that fuels our engines, that primal desire always amplified during times of social upheaval—the desire to move your body.
Many of the songs delve into Stabel’s own experiences as a German, from explorations of the Deutsch mentality of persistent fear to tackling the fake news, jingoism, racists and coronavirus deniers on hypnotic bangers ‘Dark Germany’ and ‘Dieser Klang’; issues just as prevalent in Germany as in the USA and UK.
Yet each song carries just as much weight on to the dance floor, melding driving EBM bass with soaring synthlines and coldwave atmospheres that dispel the tenseness that such heavy topics imbue, in favor of intensity and beauty. Influenced by the pop hooks of Austrian New Wave legend Falco, G.O.L.D never neglects its danceability and HD club accessibility, no matter how heady the lyricism. ‘Starker Junge’, a dissection of toxic masculinity, drops down onto the listener with sparkling synths and razor-sharp guitar, while capitalist critique ‘Fleisch’ is a pogo synthpop anthem that could send any floor into a twirling frenzy.
Wrapped in darkened beats and political ideals, G.O.L.D can’t hide the light that emanates from within its glistening, imminently catchy hooks and groove-laden rhythms. In a time where the dance floor sometimes seems like a distant memory, it’s the perfect philosopher’s metal to transmogrify your existence.
G.O.L.D tracklist:
02. Wie ein Gott
03. Fleisch
04. Exzess
05. Angst
06. Maschine
07. Dark Germany
08. Starker Junge
09. Dieser Klang
10. Keine Heimat
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Friday, February 05, 2021
Watch: XTR HUMAN Unveil New Single/Video "LEBEN OHNE LICHT"
The song is out now and is the first taste of his forthcoming new album 'G.O.L.D' out soon via Berlin’s Braid Records. Grab it here.
‘LEBEN OHNE LICHT’ is an EBM tinged four to the flour jaunt lead by an infectious melody and exhibiting vocalist Johannes Stabels’ as as much of a rhythm driver as the drums themselves climaxing to a thing of beauty with Gillian’s sweet harmonization.
Friday, December 04, 2020
Watch: XTR HUMAN Air New Single/Video "Wie Ein Gott"
The song is out now and is the first taste of his forthcoming new album. Grab it here.
Berlin ebm, Falco and Arnold clearly come to the fore as references. WIE EIN GOTT is a Goth Dance Banger. But of course the proven elements remain. XTR HUMAN still stands for dystopic ethereal sounds with lofty synth harmonies, powerful bass lines and piercing vocals.
Tuesday, June 09, 2020
Watch: XTR HUMAN Unleash Music Video For "Darkest Side"
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their new album 'Interior', released last month (May 29th). Grab it here.
The video was directed by Dominik Jureschko. Watch below.
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Thursday, February 20, 2020
New Entry: XTR HUMAN Share New Single "Masks Of Faith"
Berlin post punk/cold wave/shoegaze band XTR HUMAN have shared their new single "Masks Of Faith".
The song is taken from their upcoming new album 'Interior', set to be released on April 24. Grab it here.
Stream it below.
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