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
Fashion, dance, ignorance
Booze, drugs, cheap romance
Work, debts, family life
Pills, depression, suicide
Does life have any meaning
Does life make any sense?
Or are we going through the motions
In search for food and sex?
Is there nothing else
Is there something more
In life besides work from 7 until 4?
All you want is dance
Put yourself in trance
Forget about reality
And not to face the facts
Fashion, dance, ignorance
Booze, drugs, cheap romance
Work, debts, family life
Pills, depression, suicide
The life you lead is going nowhere!
Friday night, cages are open
48 hours to kill the boredom
Modern day slavery
Your life belongs to the bank
Spending money you don't have
You live off credit cards
Time is running fast
Years are passing by
Broken dreams, forgotten plans
You're lying in bed and wondering why...
Living For Nothing finds Horror Vacui in their best form. Songwriting and production here is even better than the excellent New Wave of Fear album and the intricate guitar work makes this their darkest offering so far. Top notch Post-Punk/Deathrock!
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