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OMD + Vile Electrodes |
Mittwoch 22/05 2013 20.30 h
Bielefeld, Ringlokschuppen
| vvk: 41,80 €
abk: 43,00 € |
Nach ihrer triumphalen Rückkehr mit dem Album
„History of Modern“ im Jahr 2010 und einer
unglaublich erfolgreichen Welttournee, sind
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark im Mai 2013
wieder „on the road“. Und zwar mit neuen Songs
ihres mit Spannung erwarteten Albums „English
Electric“, das ebenfalls im Frühjahr 2013 erscheint.
Der Sound auf ihrem neuen Werk ist elektronischer
als gewöhnlich, aber bleibt mit seinen sich
emporschwingenden Melodien und den
unwiderstehlich cleveren Texten unverkennbar der von OMD.
Wie schon die Songs ihres letzten Albums „History Of Modern“, knüpfen die Titel
ihres neuen Albums ebenso nahtlos an Klassiker wie Enola Gay, Souvenir, Joan Of
Arc und Sailing On The Seven Seas an, auf die Fans auch bei den Konzerten in
2013 ganz bestimmt nicht verzichten müssen.
Support: Vile Electrodes
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Formed through a mutual affection for early synthpop, horror film soundtracks and miserable indie bands.
Vile Electrodes’ sound has been equally influenced by fetish glamour and domestic drudgery. As a band,
this duality is everywhere. Earnest, plaintive love songs, and twisted stories of submission and sleaze. On
stage the lights are both bright, dazzling white, and an eerie subdued red. An unhealthy obsession with
science fiction and Britain’s industrial and pastoral heritage creates a love affair between an atomic-
age tomorrow that never was and a remote, romantic wilderness. A pulp fiction future of flying cars and
shining cities meets the grandeur of forgotten wastelands. The result is both driving and atmospheric;
melancholic and hopeful.
Vile Electrodes’ first incarnation was a one-off performance at the Theatre Museum. The band began
properly in 2008 with some tentative early gigs in and around London, with a lineup revolving around
the two core members. Since 2010, the band have gigged extensively around the UK as a two-piece,
performing regularly at club nights and festivals and, with the help of social media, generating a loyal
and widespread fanbase across the UK and around the world.
Musically, the references include the early exponents of electronic music, both in Europe and the UK:
disco, ‘intelligent’ dance music, modern electropop, coldwave, early industrial music and trip-hop. Early
Human League and OMD rub shoulders with Goldfrapp and Portishead. Giorgio Moroder and John
Carpenter cross with Orbital and Underworld. Chris and Cosey cosy up to Ladytron and The Knife. The
sound is inherently analogue and yet still modern: lush, wavering synthesizers, pulsing sequencers and
insistent beats, but with the edges blurred and re-drawn. This is a sound of the future from the past,
redesigned for the future.
Ballardian dystopian nightmares of longing and loss feature often, thematically and lyrically. Love is in
turns romantic, robotic and scientific. The self and society feel the same pains. Humanity is represented
both as an adjective and a noun. But where there is loneliness, there is also aspiration; where there is
vulnerability, there is also strength. And the music soars as often as it takes a downturn to a minor chord.
Releases:
Play With Fire EP (Oct 2011), The Last TIme EP (Dec 2012)
Proximity [Electropop 6 compilation April 2011]
Fatal Error [Music To Play Games By Too compilation Dec 2011]
Debut Album due Spring 2013
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