Vibravoid to Release We Cannot Awake Aug. 23
German psychedelic/garage rockers Vibravoid mark their 35th anniversary as they invariably would: with a new album. We Cannot Awake will be released on Aug. 23 through Tonzonen, and it’s the latest in a flurry-rush of 2020s outings from the Düsseldorf trio, whose 2023 full-length, Edge of Tomorrow, can be streamed at the bottom of this post. There’s no audio from the new one yet, but preorders are up now and if you think they’re about to radically depart from the lysergic vehemence they’ve proffered for the last three and a half decades, cosmic and steeped in late-’60s traditionalism, well, I haven’t heard it yet, but that doesn’t strike me as particularly likely.
The band, via the PR wire, offer some perspective on their 35 years below, and you’ll find the release announcement for We Cannot Awake, including the e’er crucial preorder link, thereafter. Turn on, dig in:
Neo-Kraut/ Psychedelic Rock Outfit VIBRAVOID Announces New Album We Cannot Awake.
35 YEARS OF MAXIMUM VOID VIBRATION – About 35 years of Vibravoid.
“We were incredibly lucky that we were able to do all this as teenagers. It was this “teen anti-attitude” that no longer exists today. Kraut rock, fuzz effects, light shows, ’67 psychedelic rock and therefore real hippie culture were completely out or dead – so we thought it was “cool”. Here in Düsseldorf, kraut rock and psychedelic records, including record players, were lying around in the bulky waste, nobody wanted them anymore. That was underground. Even vinyl records were only really “cool” when nobody wanted them anymore – today it’s lame mainstream.”
Those were all unique moments back then and we were somehow always in tune with the times and were able to help shape them. Back then, we wanted to be pioneers of a new “beat and psychedelic movement”, just as a naive teenager would imagine. We really lived it all, for us there was no world after 1970… I really didn’t think it would be such a crazy trip back then. It’s all really crazy!”
– Dr. Koch, Vibravoid
Vibravoid – We Cannot Awake
+++ RELEASE DATE | 23.08.24 +++
Preorder: https://www.tonzonen.de/shop/p/vibravoid-coming-soon-
New album We Cannot Awake is the perfect soundtrack for THC legalization and Vibravoid is the essence of Düsseldorf genetics. They create musical fever dreamscapes that are stronger than LSD. We Cannot Awake is the In A Gadda Da Vida of Generation X. Vibravoid haven’t released a real longtrack for several records, but now the band is making up for this and adding a few more hits.
With Get To You, Vibravoid deliver the psychedelic earworm for every large-space disco. Grooving pop music with hymnic hooks meets the effects wall of the 1960s. The ideal music for any highway.
The band’s love of The Byrds is obvious from tracks like Nothing Is Wrong or A Comment On The Current Times – but the combination with Düsseldorf’s “Motorik Sound” is a completely new level on which psychedelic music can work. The End Of The Game still shows Vibravoid as the German masters of the fuzz effect. Ultra psychedelic guitar sounds and echo effects create a maelstrom that pulls the listener into the spell of the complex rhythm. Vibravoid are not stingy with creative ideas, but still shake themselves out of their sleeves after 35!
Side A closes with On Empty Streets and paints a dystopian picture, yet Vibravoid manage to crank up the pop factor so high that the riffs almost burn themselves into your consciousness… expanding it. All the sound effects are perfectly embedded, you hardly notice that this is actually highly experimental music in the sense of the Düsseldorf school.
We Cannot Awake completely fills side B with over 20 minutes. Musically, the listener is in for a very special experience. Vibravoid fuse their Düsseldorf sound with the year 2024 at the highest level. We Cannot Awake is a journey into the abysses of human existence and other depths of the outer cosmos. Driving beats and interstellar frequencies channel the primal fear of the unknown, because this music is dangerous. Sonic carpets of strychnine and psylocibin. Magical mushrooms. Time is running out. We cannot awaken!
Pre-save the album right here: https://bfan.link/we-cannot-awake
Tracklist
1. Get To You
2. Nothing Is Wrong
3. The End Of The Game
4. A Comment Of The Current Times
5. On Empty Streets
6. We Cannot Awake
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