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Artist: Solar Fake
Title: Another Manic Episode
Genre: Electro, Synth Pop, EBM, Industrial, Wave
Release Date: 30th October 2015
Label: Out of Line

Album Review

One day before All Hallows Eve 2015, we can finally hold ‘Another Manic Episode’ in our hands. It's the fourth record by the melodic electro duo SOLAR FAKE from Berlin, and as they claim, their best so far. Singer Sven Friedrich (DREADFUL SHADOWS, ZERAPHINE) and keyboardist André Feller are widely celebrated for including dance floor anthems as well as melancholic tunes and ballads in their repertory, which are always carried by their talent to create manifold moods and Sven's convincing vocals. If you are into actually sad music that makes you want to dance despite its melancholia you will be thrilled by SOLAR FAKE's latest, diverse and deep opus.

SOLAR FAKE's new episode begins with multiple club hits, starting with the powerful ‘Not what I wanted’, followed by the slightly more aggressive and faster ‘Fake to be alive’, which leads to the melancholic and yet danceable single ‘All the things you say’ with its “supernova” chorus. On we go with the driving beats of ‘Under control’, in which Sven's warm vocals and a beautiful chorus shine. Close beside all that club power so far, there is the poppy ‘Until it's over’, in which it gets super melodic and more melancholic. Then, with the following, fast-paced ‘Observer’ and, especially, the forceful ‘The race of the rats’, which features distorted, harsher vocals, things get way harder. Both are smashing party hits of the more violent kind – what a blast! By contrast, ‘If I were you’ and the particularly gripping ‘I don't want you in here’ sweep us of our feet with gorgeous melodies and vocals. The album closes of with the beautiful and beseeching ballad ‘Stay’. It features some piano and more soulful vocals as it steadily builds up towards the end. And so we are left behind with a moving moment after an intense and diverse album.

The union of wonderful melodies and driving beats, in-your-face aggression, and touching gloom or bloom, is what SOLAR FAKE is all about – with ‘Another Manic Episode’ they bring this close to perfection making our hearts leap. In February 2016 they will also stir our blood on the "Manic Episodes Tour" throughout Germany. Their record release show on October 30 in the Franzz Club, Berlin, is already sold out, which is no surprise; it might be the only show where SOLAR FAKE “play EVERY song of the new album ‘Another Manic Episode’, plus all hits from the past”.


Tracklist

01. Not what I wanted
02. Fake to be alive
03. All the things you say
04. Under control
05. Until it's over
06. Observer
07. The race of the rats
08. If I were you
09. I don't want you in here
10. Stay


Line-up

Sven Friedrich – vocals
André Feller – keyboards


Website

www.solarfake.de / https://www.facebook.com/SolarFake


Cover Picture

solarfake anothermanicepisode


Rating

Music: 9
Sound: 10
Total: 9.5 / 10





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