Beborn Beton – Darkness Falls Again (Album – Dependent Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: “Darkness Falls Again” is the ninth album to date by German Electro-Pop formation Beborn Beton. It also is their first new full length in eight years. The band has mainly been active, and successful, during the 90s and early 00s.
Content: The album takes off with a sweet, styled opener which serves as a perfect teaser to the upcoming catchy, danceable song. This work features a succession of well-crafted and fully accomplished songs with a perfect balance between danceable parts and melancholic moods. I now and then notice a Depeche Mode touch but Beborn Beton first of all remains a band with a very personal Electro-Pop identity with the unique voice of Stefan Netschio on top.
+ + + : Beborn Beton has nothing to prove; being an established and recognized formation in their music style they simply seem to have fun working with their own stuff. The production reveals a true maturity which comes through in every single detail. “Darkness Falls Again” first of all is a great work featuring outstanding cuts like “Dancer In The Dark”, “I Watch My Life On TV” and “Burning Gasoline”. It’s an album with multiple potential singles and hits. What I mostly like is the way they transpose serious lyrical themes accentuated by dark sound treatments into catchy tunes and danceable rhythms.
– – – : I regret the album is only featuring 8 songs.
Conclusion: Hard to say which is my favorite Beborn Beton-album but “Darkness Falls Again” definitely belongs to my personal top 3; great and very personal Electro-Pop.
Best songs: “Dancer In The Dark”, “I Watch My Life On TV”, “Burning Gasoline”, “Last Chance”.
Rate: 8½.
Artist: www.bebornbeton.de / www.facebook.com/bebornbeton
Label: www.dependent.de / www.facebook.com/dependent.records Read the news on ‘Darkness Falls Again’.
About Beborn Beton
Beborn Beton is a German synthpop band formed in 1989 in Essen, Germany, by Stefan Tillmann (keyboards, drums), Michael Wagner (keyboards) and vocalist Stefan Netschio. The band’s debut album, “Tybalt,” arrived in 1993, compiling the tracks written during the group’s first three years, and was followed by “Concrete Ground” in 1995.
A change of record label in 1996 preceded “Nightfall,” the album that became the band’s commercial breakthrough. Beborn Beton went on to build a catalog of eight studio albums through the 1990s and 2000s before “Darkness Falls Again,” reviewed here, arrived as their ninth album and first new full-length in eight years.
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