V/A – United States Of Melancholia - Part I - Post Punk GDR 1982 - 1990 DLP Noiserock the tortured grandeur of Radiohead

the tortured grandeur of Radiohead

most empowering) album ever: Double Negative

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fashioned for snooping searchers and paranoid lurkers

designed by Ilg Santer architects

V/A – United States Of Melancholia - Part I - Post Punk GDR 1982 - 1990 DLP Noiserock the tortured grandeur of RadioheadThe 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