Published
Fri, Jul 26, 2019, 15:00
- Ostalgia will come out on Adam X's Sonic Groove label in September.
Rhys Fulber is putting out his second album through Sonic Groove.
Ostalgia is named for the concept of nostalgia for communist life in East Germany, inspired by Fulber's German heritage, and the music is meant to imagine what people must have felt like and thought about immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Like Fulber's last solo album, 2018's Your Dystopia, My Dystopia, the tracks are a mix of ambient and beat-oriented material.
"This project reflects not only the nostalgia and comfort that a strictly structured culture can bring," the press release says, "but the immense chaos and uncertainty that comes from the eruption of such a culture."
In addition to his work for Sonic Groove, Fulber is best known for his work in prominent Canadian industrial band Front Line Assembly. He's also a key member of the group's new age-inspired side project Delerium, which scored a worldwide hit with the Sarah McLachlan-featuring "Silence" in 1997.
Listen to "Misery Whip."
Tracklist
01. Fountain Of National Radio
02. 12 Steppes
03. Konsum
04. Neolithic Chasm
05. Right Hand Of The Free World
06. Misery Whip
07. Apostel
08. Fission
Sonic Groove will release Ostalgia on September 6th, 2019.
Album artwork: Janina Schütz
