The German dark electro-pop duo Rotersand have announced a new album entitled Don’t Become The Thing You Hated. Out on 8th August via Metropolis Records, it will be their first full length studio record since How Do You Feel Today?, which appeared just a week before the world was forced to shut down in March 2020.
A single from the album entitled ‘Private Firmament (I Fell For You)’ is out today. Explaining its meaning, the band say: “human nature is not binary, but algorhythm induced communication forces us to choose virtual sides to stimulate emotions and click rates. Yes or no, black or white, for or against, one or the other. Ultimately, we sit in our post-fact, post-science, post-truth private firmaments with nothing in common other than the cold light of screens pretending to shine for us. We say, leave the private firmaments and dance with us, with real faces under real stars.”
Don’t Become the Thing You Hated sees the Hamburg based act (comprised of Rascal Nikov and Krischan Jan-Eric Wesenberg) return with an album that is as much a cultural critique as it is a musical statement. In a world increasingly defined by division, alienation and existential anxiety, the duo cast a sharp eye on the psychological toll of our times and issue a warning. The message is clear: in fighting what we oppose, we risk becoming it ourselves.
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