Voith – Alien In Obscura (Album – Voith)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Cinematic-Pop.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: Lars Voith has been active for more than twenty years. The Swedish solo-artist is back on track unleashing an album with twelve songs.
Content: The songs are clearly into good-old Electro-Pop music. The main evolution probably is the Cinematic effect emerging from the production while the retro-synth melodies remain one of the project’s main characteristics. You’ll notice male- and female vocals.
+ + + : I like the vintage approach of the album which remains one of Voith’s main strengths and characteristics. The string parts are great once again. I also like the female singing injecting a sensual touch to the work. The album indeed has a Cinematic feeling but there are still cool, danceable, cuts featured like “Craftmode (Spaceship Commando)” and “Dee Dee Answers In Extraterrestrial Waves”.
– – – : The strings and melody lines became a bit similar after a while.
Conclusion: This is a pretty cool work with a great retro-feeling.
Best songs: “Craftmode (Spaceship Commando)”, “Dee Dee Answers In Extraterrestrial Waves”, “A Cosmic Funeral Up Higher”, “Feel The Music (The Monolith Portal)”.
Rate: 7.
Artist: www.facebook.com/voithmusicofficial
About VOITH
VOITH is the solo project of Swedish musician Lars Voith, based in Södertälje and started in 1997. The Bandcamp page for the project lists synth, synthpop, electropop, coldwave, darkwave, post-punk, gothwave and spacewave as its genres.
Voith drew wider attention in November 2017 with “Kraftwerk (Roboterkönige)”, his tribute to Kraftwerk. In 2021 he issued two collections of reshaped older songs and previously unreleased tracks, “Wunderland: Lineare Monotone Musik” and “Outtakes, Originals & Schizophrenia”, the second accompanied by an official video for “One By One – Remix”.
“Alien In Obscura” was self-released on 4 March 2022 and holds twelve tracks running about 51 minutes. Lars Voith wrote the music and lyrics and Karen supplied the cover artwork. “The Bird Code” followed later in 2022, and the ten-track Abstrakte Emotionen arrived in May 2023.
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