This is not typical Primitive Offerings fare. A 30-year-old German tribute to Depeche Mode is not my bread & butter. But I snagged this one a year and a half ago specifically because it's so outside the norm of what I write about, and because it allows me to talk a bit about my favorite secret subgenre.
I fucking LOVE EBM.
I dated a fair amount of goth/industrial girls in my teens and twenties. And while the visual aesthetics and general mope-ery of those genres aren't my bag, I'll be damned if the music doesn't make me horny as hell. It sounds like sweat and body heat feels to me. Even in middle age, with a record that came out at a particularly fallow time for EBM, this just makes me want to grind it out in a pair of tall Docs and a tight pair of jeans. And Depeche Mode felt like a proper group to pay tribute to, as my favorite songs fit well in a setlist made up of the Normal, Die Krupps, Nine Inch Nails, and Suicide.
All in all, it was worth picking this one up and, quite frankly, it's weird to me that this never got formally released here in the States. It seems tailor made for a late-90s Cleopatra reissue.
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