Let us talk about George Pappas aka Alien Skin, George is a former member of Real Life.
The Australian new wave/synth band topped 1984 charts with their million seller, Send Me An Angel, still one of the best tracks of the 80s in my opinion.
Upon leaving Real Life in 2005 recording commenced on what became the debut Alien Skin album, 'Don’t Open Till Doomsday'. The album resonated with a burgeoning MySpace community of synthpop and darkwave fans, especially of 80s 'Black Celebration' era Depeche Mode persuasion. It was via this once pervasive and powerful social platform a fan base of support emerged and grew.
The music releases have consciously evolved since 2008. From the atmospheric early albums, characterized by New York's 'Grave Concerns' magazine as “goth music with the rock bled out of it” to the “gloom soaked synth crunch with afflictive emotions” of post-punk darkwave heard on his more current releases.
Since 2008, 14 CD albums, a prodigious number of EPs and singles have been issued.
Pressrelease:
I’ve always returned to the coldwave genre—its emptiness, its icy atmosphere, its sense of distance and emotional isolation. There’s something in its restraint that feels honest to me. 'Coldwave Manifesto' came out of that space.
The three tracks—Coldwave Forever, Necromancer, and Kill Me Now Before I Die are not comforting, that's not how I write. They're cold and emotionally frayed at the edges. Just the way I personally like it.
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