My Review: ZEITGEIST+ Vol. 2 by Cold Transmission Music

 ZEITGEIST+ Vol. 2

by Cold Transmission Music

We find ourselves before the new gift from Cold Transmission, a label constantly capable of giving us reasons for happiness, privileges that become benefits to be used to steer our needs towards an area that knows how to be both collective and intimate.

So let's visit the 19 songs in this new compilation by Andreas and Suzy Hermann, whom we thank for the umpteenth time.

Song by Song

1 Bedless Bones - A Poison Tree

The Estonian band packs melody and intriguing situations by taking us, dancing, to the banks of a river, with a tree guarding this Synthpop-soaked electronica.

2 Alex Sindrome - Suicide Watch (featuring Dawn Blackbird)

The French artist's electro has a make-up of sensual darkness, a track that closes the shutters and plunges us into an ethyllic coma: eclectic, seductive, it conquers by the solutions adopted.

3 Walter Frosch - Under A Spell

The Swiss musician and singer, with his punk soaked in Synth wave and Pop, finds a way to write a sonic path that colours the sky at a high tempo.

4 Night Haze - The Light

We fly to Greece with an Electro-Dark embraced by Darkwave and it is a physical and mental delight, as with the track we travel into the light of a darkness that welcomes this perfectly structured sound system.

5 A Projection - Time (RMX)

Sweden confirms its distinct sense of giving joy to fear: a song with the gothic banner on Dark-Electro beams, splendid...

6 Left for Pleasure - Hinter Schweren Gedanken

EBM, Synthwave, Post-Punk, Electronics for the German band that takes the eighties and treats them with a syringe full of algorithmic woo, flashes of icy wind and magnetic fingernails: amazing act of strength.

7 M/A/T - Das Fundament

We stay in Germany and throw ourselves into icy, enchanting synths, where it's the EBm of the Nineties knocking at the door, with doses of electronics filling the pulsating veins of a robotic dance: ecstatic!

8 NECRØ - Surviving Pessimism

Lisbon and the synthetic fog, the shards of dust coming out of the abyss and the magnetic vocals of the most suggestive Dark-Electro, creating tension, even in the presence of hints of melody that try to make the situation more acceptable. It's pure adrenaline, with a whip on the skin.

9 Lacquer - Them

Berlin gives us a nice dose of conceptual sadness, slowly descending into the body, with oblique keyboards and a voice kept just under the skin for a song that compares Coldwave and Electro Pop, for a challenge in the very curious Alexander Platz. Intense!

10 Menthüll - Pour un silence

We go to Canada to dance in the folds of silence, with musical genres that meet each other, a lightness that makes us dreamy and happy: Synthwave prevails, toasting the many friends of this circular, sunny movement...

11 La Mécanique - Vestige du futur

Canada again, but this time we're in the middle of a lake full of electronic waves, in a sombre mood, powerful though, with its dose of Synthwave, Coldwave and Synthpop, urging us to surf on shards of ice in search of a farewell, with the future approving its melancholic guise...

12 METAL DISC - Crooked

Athens fills the Parthenon for an acid party with flashes of EBM and Synthpunk, with Minimal Synth projections that warm the hearts in its changes of impulses and hallucinations...

13 Rina Pavar - the things we hide (Club Mix)

The Leipzig goddess offers us a Club Mix, to complete our toxic addiction to this track: the dark electronic measures her breath with a weave of synths soaked in poison, to dance, dying, in her arms...

14 Oliver Decrow - We Are Going In Circles

Dear Oliver is the emblem of Germany, who whips the present, teases it and pours his strategies on it, skilfully combining Coldwave, Electronic and Synthwave, for a gloomy welter of liquid atmospheres. Therapeutic and mysterious, the song spins us around in a magic circle of feverish threads...

15 Laurent Colson - Senses Game

At night, in Paris, among the streets, staggering, fleeing, with happiness in black clothes and shadows, and the Synthwave blessing and summoning sick carriers of fragments of electronics, hot. Hypnotic and rapacious...

16 Sun's Spectrum - All I Want

All we want is to lose ourselves in the intensity of the Italian duo, pelvic engineers of Synthwave pounding, with voices morbidly close to enjoyment, as everything moves in delirium...

17 Revenge Body - Bliss

We fly to the States and cover ourselves well: the band here melts our hearts with a catatonic melody, its skin painted with Retro Wave and tamed electronics, close to a sobbing Coldwave...

18 Bleached Heat - Against the Wall

Canada again, and it's black-skinned orgasm, in a merry-go-round that starts in the Eighties and arrives at the present day: it takes a few prestigious genres, on which Synthwave, Synthpop and Dark Synthpop take over, deciding to command operations. And you dance with your eyes against the wall...

19 Scenius - High Low

To end it all you go to Leeds and it's a glow of synthetic tears, a pensive walk between the darkest Synthpop and an obedient Synthwave. You close your eyes and fall in, happily, with bruising cheers, because sadness is never quite a mistake...

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

1st April 2023

https://coldtransmissionmusic.bandcamp.com/album/zeitgeist-vol-2-2