New Music: Kirlian Camera – The 8th President

Italy’s masters of the dark electronic arts Kirlian Camera are warming up to release their forthcoming double album Cold Pills (Scarlet Gate of Toxic Daybreak) with a sneak peek of the lead single, The 8th President.

The band says it marks a slight change in direction for them, and that’s true of the sombre post-punk and experimental tones you can hear in the arrangement. It’s certainly a move away from the stirring electro-pop sound of recent years, heading instead into cinematic, unstructured sonic explorations. At the heart of the song is Elena Alice Fossi. Her vocals are still majestic, as her voice is allowed to test its limits to tremendous effect.

The band explained some of the thoughts and meanings behind the lyrics of the song: “At times apocalyptically romantic, at other times merciless and stormy, The 8th President appears to be the choreography of ‘satanic-shaped mystics,’ for those, who have no courageous touch with the subsoil of good.

The true history of the world was born in the basement. It is there that the event of The 8th President came to life, in the dark and devastating places of a former asylum, where the screams and desperation of long-term patients can be still clearly perceived in every corner of that earthly hell. The pieces of a luxurious marble chessboard are moving under the fingers of the 8th President. The preys of dark and conditioning powers are now his toy, leaving nothing to dreams.”

The 8th President comes in a black and grey, four-sided Digipak CD format and as a 12inch vinyl single limited to 300 black and 200 gold-coloured copies. It will hit the stores on the 26^th of March  and can be pre-ordered on Bandcamp.

Cold Pills (Scarlet Gate of Toxic Daybreak) is scheduled for release via Dependent Records on May 14^th 2021. You can find out more about Kirlian Camera and their upcoming releases over on their Facebook and Instagram socials.