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LP-TLV-162C

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White

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2023-05-12

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Redeye

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Sales:8.875

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5055869549530

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CD-TLV-162

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5055869549554

Artist

Autobahn

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Tough Love

Autobahn is an artist known for their unique blend of post-punk and darkwave music. With influences ranging from Saigon Blue Rain to Death Bells, Autobahn creates a sound that is both haunting and captivating. Their music is characterized by atmospheric guitars, driving basslines, and powerful vocals.
Similar to bands like Chain of Flowers and Ritual Howls, Autobahn's music transports listeners to a world filled with melancholic beauty. The band's ability to create a sense of urgency in their songs sets them apart from other artists in the genre.
Autobahn has gained a loyal following through their energetic live performances and thought-provoking lyrics. Fans of A Projection and FACS will appreciate the raw emotion that Autobahn brings to each song. Whether you're a fan of post-punk or simply looking for something new, Autobahn is an artist worth exploring.

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Close to five years since their last record, Leeds denizens AUTOBAHN re-enter the fray with the release of their third record, Ecstasy of Ruin. Many of the hallmarks of their characteristic blend of industrial post-punk remain intact, but under the bonnet they’re a much leaner, more focused machine. 

Live drums have given way to drum-machines and sample-based percussion, and with it the band reconfigure their typically blackened aesthetic into a hardened take on Electronic Body Music. As with their previous record, it’s an entirely self-produced collection, recorded between two self-built studios on a range of analogue equipment, the ghosts of their industrial forefathers haunting the circuits. Indeed, some of Ecstasy of Ruin was made with pieces salvaged from Martin Hannett’s legendary studio. AUTOBAHN certainly feel part of the long tradition of crepuscular music to emanate from Northern Britain, be that the transgressive activities of COUM Transmissions from Hull, Sheffield Steel City or the gothic history of their very own hometown. 
 
Ecstasy of Ruin also speaks to right now. No album opens with a song titled ‘Post-History’ and closes with another called ‘Class War’ without some concession to the current condition and its place within it. Industrial music by its nature is a physical concern, often placing the human body and its experience in the context of technology, reflecting the varying trevails of late capitalism. AUTOBAHN strive towards some kind of articulation of that conflict. The music is unrelentingly taut and terse, and the vocals of Craig Johnson are invariably intense, though lyrically there are repeated allusions to beauty, empowerment and, ostensibly, hope. As such, the title of the album is an instructive one - there’s some kind of bliss in all this mess. AUTOBAHN don’t so much push against the pain as ride it out to its (il)logical ends.

Ecstasy of Ruin

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