Forward To The Past is the new 12" EP from Berlin's extravagant Dark Punk quartet Totenwald. The follow-up to their debut album "Dirty Squats And Disco Lights," the 4 songs - self-recorded in May 2019 - come on transparent pink vinyl with lyrics sheet in an edition of 500 copies as a co-release between Plastic Bomb Records in Germany, and the band.
Originally only available as a limited cassette during their West Coast US Tour in September 2019, the title of the EP is a sarcastic reference to the current 80s revival, which comes not only with fashion and music styles but also with the return of Cold War-era politics. The songs themselves are political and discerning, yet comprehensible and straight to the point.
"Forward To The Past" is a complex mosaic celebrating the aesthetics and style of the past while not being doomed to repeat them, rounded off with perfectly fitting artwork. Top-class neo-post-punk!
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lyrics
1984, 1984!
You miss the 80s now you've got them ( - Welcome to...)
You want the 80s now you've got them ( - Cold War 2...)
Russians and NATO showing off their muscles
America conspires against all the others
Evil empires are playing with Fire
Deciding the fate of frightened masses...
Back to the future, forward to the past
New Star Wars, new arms race
Same old game, just new names
Aim and methods are still the same...
1984, 1984!
You miss the 80s now you've got them ( - Welcome to...)
You want the 80s now you've got them ( - Cold War 2...)
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My blessings. Elis Alex
It's uncanny just how good Actors is at emulating that Post-Punk synth sound from my younger days.
Each listen just gets better and better. I feel slightly ashamed for not having heard this album until a few short days ago. modestwriggles