On their 5th studio album, Maxx and Noemi share their addiction to the night and carry us in their very own surrealistic nocturnal world where you will rapidly feel comfortable, far away from the daily routine, opening your mind to a unique mosaic of colors and emotions, plunging you into a sonic time tunnel sucking the 80's New Wave moody catchy melodies and reinjecting them into a 21st century cyber industrial futuristic landscape, the whole reflected by HELALYN FLOWERS unique sonic kaleidoscope.
This wonderful new album offers fast-sequenced electro dance grooves and highly catchy pop vox clashing onto powerful electric guitar riffs ("Tetrachromatic", the floorkiller "Kamikaze Angel", the NEW ORDER-ish and almost romantic "Beyond" or yet the album title song â"Nyctophilia"); but also kind of timeless pop wave tunes with a modern dynamic touch evoking classic acts like CLAN OF XYMOX, THE CURE, GARY NUMAN or yet DEPECHE MODE ("Unleash The Wolves", "Breathless" and its addictive synth melodic lines, the darkwave goth pop "Run Away (With My Demons)" or yet the oppressive gothic rock anthem "When It Is Not Black Enough").
All beautiful songs on which Noemi's voice evokes similarities with good old GHOST DANCE, SKELETAL FAMILY, SIOUXSIE, but also GARBAGE and other WITHIN TERMPTATION. Last but not least, HELALYN FLOWERS also stand for more upfront raging industrial metal moments with impressive adrenaline pumping revolted vocal assaults ("Let Me In" and the edgy and almost self-destructive cyber pop rock of "Morphine").
The limited edition of the album holds a 12-track bonus disc featuring 3 amazing remixes by the band itself revealing the impressive ability of Maxx to mutate his own dark songs into forceful club anthems! Add to this a sonic orgy of remixes of the band's last club hit single "Kamikaze Angel" rendered in the most varied styles ranging from hard dance to pop rock through lo-fi electro and other future electro. Last but not least, a very alluring duet on "Beyond" with the enigmatic IMJUDAS, Maxx's very own and promising dark pop solo-project whose debut album is expected late 2018.
Released early July 2018 on Alfa Matrix.
Track Listing CD1:
01 Tetrachromatic
02 Unleash the Wolves
03 Kamikaze Angel
04 Let Me in
05 Breathless
06 Run away (with My Demons)
07 Beyond
08 When it is not black enough
09 Nyctophilia
10 Morphine
CD2:
01 Tetrachromatic (blue hour mix)
02 Kamikaze Angel (The Synthetic Dream Foundation mix)
03 Kamikaze Angel (In Black Lights rmx)
04 Beyond (feat. Imjudas)
05 Kamikaze Angel (Alien:Nation rmx)
06 Kamikaze Angel (People Theatre's electricity mix)
07 Nyctophilia (club mix)
08 Kamikaze Angel (Lis Van Den Akker & Jen_ Ascending Rock rmx)
09 Kamikaze Angel (Wasserkraft Manifest rmx)
10 Let Me In (deep reality mix)
11 Kamikaze Angel (Digital Shadows rmx)
12 Kamikaze Angel (Acid Fairy rmx)
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