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| Camouflage - Greyscale
(Bureau B)
Tracklist
01. Shine
02. Laughing
03. In the Cloud
04. Count on Me (Featuring Peter Heppner)
05. Greyscale
06. Still
07. Misery
08. Leave Your Room Behind
09. Light Grey
10. End of Words
11. Dark Grey
12. I'll Find
Release Date
6th March 2015
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Camouflage - Greyscale (CD)
Camouflage - Greyscale / Limitierte Erstauflage (CD)
Camouflage - Greyscale (12" Vinyl + CD)
Press Release
We write the year 2015. One retro wave follows the next. Synth-Pop is bigger than ever. All around the world, current productions reference the sound that emerged from pre-reunification Germany. So where are the originals – the bands and artists of that time – today? Many can be found doing the rounds at eighties parties held by local radio stations. Others are investing the royalties from their back catalogues in the cultivation of organic vegetables.
Not so for Camouflage. That's right – THE Camouflage – the masters of sadness dressed up in electronic songs. The band flitted directly from the small German town of Bietigheim-Bissingen all the way to the United States in 1987 with "The Great Commandment". Their music brilliantly combined the icy coolness of Kraftwerk, the pop of OMD and the melancholy gloom of Depeche Mode. Yet the temptation to indulge in nostalgia has always remained very feint with this band. So it's no surprise that Camouflage now emerge with “Greyscale” – a strikingly current and compelling album, both musically and lyrically.
Flashback: Heiko Maile, Oliver Kreyssig and Marcus Meyn were schoolboys with synthesizers and a keen ear for the musical zeitgeist. It was a world dominated by fears and apocalyptic scenarios, non-aggression pacts and embargoes, ruled by old men and one woman. The Cold War was almost over, the Berlin Wall was still standing. It was in this landscape that Camouflage unleashed their music: driving, demanding and so beautifully sad in its invitation to lose oneself in eternity while dancing. The band found s...Read the whole post...
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