Menschdefekt feat. J:Dead – Secular Days (EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Pop, Industrial-Pop.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: While Menschdefekt is actually achieving their new full length, we get this EP featuring UK artist Jay Taylor aka J:Dead.
Content: The title song is a harsh approach of Electro-Pop empowered with guitar playing and carried by a solid chorus featuring powerful vocals by J:Dead. We next get two pumping tracks, kind of hard Electro-Pop power. One of the songs features vocals by Fredrik Croona. The last track is a remix of the title track by Rob Dust.
+ + + : The choruses of the songs -but especially the title song, have an elevating effect. This is a cool international collaboration resulting in a complementary production. Next to the original song both other cuts left could be title songs as well. I like the heavy resonating “Not The Hate” featuring a great production of the vocals. Rob Dust did a great job remixing “Secular Days” which sounds even better than the original edit.
– – – : Only cool, danceable songs but maybe not the ‘ultimate’ hit.
Conclusion: This is a successful collaboration which will appeal for lovers of naughty Electro-Pop sounds.
Best songs: “Not The Hate”, “Secular Days – Rob Dust Remix”, “Flames”.
Rate: 7.
Artist: www.menschdefekt.com / www.facebook.com/official.menschdefekt Label: www.infacted-recordings.de / www.facebook.com/pages/Infacted-Recordings/124099254321690
About Menschdefekt
Menschdefekt started in Aschaffenburg, Germany in 2004 as the solo project of Dominik R. The sound moves between electro, industrial and gothic, with lyrics written around the social criticism the project name points to. In February 2009 Swedish vocalist Fredrik Croona, also active in Cynical Existence, Croona and Project Rotten, joined as permanent singer and lyricist.
The band works with Infacted Recordings, which issued the digital single “Cursed” on 8 May 2020 and the album “Empty World” on 19 June 2020. That record held nine new songs plus seven remixes on CD and a track featuring German forensic biologist Dr. Mark Benecke.
The “Secular Days” EP reviewed here preceded the fourth studio album Recombination, released on 25 November 2022 with ten new songs and four remixes on CD; the title track appears there as well. Croona announced his departure in October 2022 after fifteen years and four albums with the band. Menschdefekt continued with the EP “Rays Of Light” in August 2024, and Alex Erbacher of District 13 joined as singer with the single “Black As Black Can Be” in May 2025.
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