I don't follow social media, so I am not entirely sure whether there was a prolonged, deep build-up announcing this new album, but to me, this came as a total surprise release on a weekend's morning!
And a very welcome surprise indeed. Horrorist "returns" to his true power again and gives us a whole album of dark and twisted electronic albums.
The theme of the album seems to be "minimal wave" here. And let me tell you that The Horrorist does this better than any other act that tries to jump in the very "minimal wave" hype that's going on for a few years (decades?) now - because he covers the lofi, minimalist, improvised aspects of it - while the other neo-wave bands usually sound extremely polished, clean, spiffy. They're more like Olivia Newton-Johns than Deborah Harrys (strange metaphor).
But let's get back to Mr. Chesler. It's not all "minimal", far from it! He skillfully crochets aspects of techno, hardcore, goth, industrial into these tracks.
And the strongest point is, once again, the storytelling.
The album is made up of 12 eclectic tales, that despite their short nature are very complex and seem to contain whole words of fiction and dreams inside them.
These tales range from the disturbing and sick, perverted, to the moody and insightful, and finally to the comedic and bizarre.
An example for the former might be "The Fortress"; an example for the latter might be "Parlez-vous Français?" (here is an excerpt from the lyrics: "I met a girl from France.
I needed to get into her underpants.
So I said…Do you wanna play?
Parlez-vous français?")
So, in conclusion. Mr. Chesler delivers once again; fully and completely. It quickly became one of my favorite releases by him.
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