V/A – United States Of Melancholia - Part I - Post Punk GDR 1982 - 1990 DLP Psychedelic Rock And you'll have to take

And you'll have to take our word for it

dark funk and their forte of sonic soundscapes

a recurring presence in his recordings

The compositions move through (dis)enchanted landscapes

V/A – United States Of Melancholia - Part I - Post Punk GDR 1982 - 1990 DLP Psychedelic Rock And you'll have to takeThe political revolt of punk was succeeded by the aesthetic adventure of post punk. During the Cold War, dark wave, gothic and industrial also had their equivalents under the unlucky star of the GDR. The title "United States Of Melancholia" refers to a shadowland behind the perpetually rising facade of construction and to a nationally ingrained melancholy that, in the GDR, seemed to well up from deeper strata beneath an officially prescribed cheer