Eutropic – A Day Dream for the Dark Age
5 February sees the release of “Dark Age Day Dream”, the new album from Bernese synth band Eutropic. Describing themselves as an “analogue synth-obsessed avant pop trio”, they mine a seam of influences that begins at the darker end of 1980s synth pop, with influences like Bauhaus, Xmal Deutschland and Clan of Xymox. It is entirely appropriate, then, that “Dark Age Day Dream” is released by the London-based Aztec Records, an independent label devoted entirely to the joys of retrowave, synthwave and synthpop.
Previously calling themselves Parrot to the Moon, Dominique Hindermann, Sacha di Piazza and David Muther, perhaps reflecting the present circumstances, produce a considerably darker sound under their new guise. “Dark Age Day Dream” was produced by the band themselves and Slade Templeton, the American-born, Berne-based “musician and horror author”. “Dark Age Day Dream”, write Eutropic, “is a concept record that obsesses over the nature of time! It’s our attempt to make sense of reality, so it’s full of contradictions and ambiguities”.
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