Five years after the sci-fi thriller Kyria 13, German industrial cultists Individual Totem return with a new album, Electrostatic, out September on Toronto-based label Artoffact Records. For a band who, at least according to I Die: You Die, produced an industrial space opera on their last record, Electrostatic is that space opera as played out on a dance floor, complete with literal warriors of the sun channelling Daniel B. and his alien friends. And with interludes that seem to take you into different aesthetic realms, re-listens reveal a shape to the album that is way beyond the sum of its parts. Band founder Bernd Madl writes "Electrostatic takes you on a trip through old school soundscapes as well as hopeful and sometimes forbidden places," but ... mehr lesen