Skemer – Toasts & Sentiments LP smoked red vinyl

AV!087 SKEMER Toasts & Sentiments LP (2023) 01. Eyelashes 02. Seen 03. Zegens 04. Easy To Embrace (feat. Gregory De Brauwer) 05. Kiss Me Kill Me 06. Used To You 07. Overgave 08. Out Of Favor 09. New Born Babe 10. Apocalypse 11. Like Dolls After a hiatus of quite some time, the Belgian duo is finally back with a new full-length album. Four years have passed since their debut Benevolence. Meanwhile Skemer took the time to let all sides of their personality grow and eventually explode. You remember their minimalist cold wave deconstructions equally made of brutal and erotic components. A duality deeply rooted in the band’s music as well as in their line-up and obviously their live shows, where romantic and ethereal atmospheres collide with the gothic side of electronic and techno music. This is even more present on their new LP Toasts & Sentiments. Eleven new cuts where every side of Skemer’s nature gets its own share of expression only to leave you wrapped in one pitch black cloak. A few episodes in the duo's native language Dutch, add even more mystery to the occult receipt. Get in the introspective, tranche insistent riff on the opening track Eyelashes and get catapulted, quite literally, on the dark side of the moon. Keep on wandering the alien surface with Seen and its solemn gait. Pick up your pace with the pounding drums of Easy To Embrace and Kiss Me Kill Me. Go down the stairs to the dungeon of the club culture with lead singles Overgave and Out Of Favor claustrophobic electro. Remain bogged down in the darkness with New Born Babe, get slapped by Apocalypse’s industrial trance crescendo. Rest and collapse with the final track’s texture of ambient synths and reverberating guitars. It may have taken four years for Skemer to present their new creation but it was definitely worth the wait. Second vinyl press on smoked red LP limited to 300.#AvantRecords#vinylrecord#alternative#synthwave#industrial#goth#synthpop#newwave#postpunk#darkwave#coldwave