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Theatrical rock, is it a musical genre? Guitar music filled with stage expression, exaggerations and poetry that is made to influence. This is how I think of Greek 2l8 which after a great “Η Κλωστή (The Thread)” and albums with music written for, obviously, theatre plays Antigone and Don Juan came back earlier this year with their best album up to now, “The Answer”. The way they describe the album, next to its post-apocalyptic cover, does already sound as if it was declaimed from stage: “Good news! Τhe world has finally ended! (...) It is time to celebrate. For we still have each other, we still have the passion (...) We are post human, we are calling to send this last message to YOU. The future depends on that tiny bundle of energy you hide inside. Join us. The war is far from over. And we need you. Signed: He&She”.
The idea of post humans who gave up their souls and started to evolve in some frightening, apocalyptic direction appears throughout the album. Those people are never fulfilled (“The wolf in me, is still hungry” - Post Human), they have no emotions (“Since that day I can only see / From the eternal perspective / I grow colder” - Learning to Breathe) and are very lonely (“The nameless grave that I dig for myself on bad days / It’s a handwritten list of the people I once knew, the people that left me” - Desire! Desire! Desire!). It all speaks very clearly, directly into your frightened soul. And it’s supported with fantastic melodies, surprisingly catchy music and delicate electronic filings. And first of all, with several different vocals, including something that sounds like gregorian chorales sung alongside guitar riffs.
Equally important is the fact that the album was crowdfunded and all the income will be given to help solving the refugee crisis in Greece, the most tangible trace of 2l8’s apocalypse coming and our western societies’ posthumanization.
“The Answer” is available for free but as written above, I recommend paying something as it is worth in every way.
The idea of post humans who gave up their souls and started to evolve in some frightening, apocalyptic direction appears throughout the album. Those people are never fulfilled (“The wolf in me, is still hungry” - Post Human), they have no emotions (“Since that day I can only see / From the eternal perspective / I grow colder” - Learning to Breathe) and are very lonely (“The nameless grave that I dig for myself on bad days / It’s a handwritten list of the people I once knew, the people that left me” - Desire! Desire! Desire!). It all speaks very clearly, directly into your frightened soul. And it’s supported with fantastic melodies, surprisingly catchy music and delicate electronic filings. And first of all, with several different vocals, including something that sounds like gregorian chorales sung alongside guitar riffs.
Equally important is the fact that the album was crowdfunded and all the income will be given to help solving the refugee crisis in Greece, the most tangible trace of 2l8’s apocalypse coming and our western societies’ posthumanization.
“The Answer” is available for free but as written above, I recommend paying something as it is worth in every way.
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