Solar Fake

There’s one thing SOLAR FAKE puts a strong emphasis on: variety! When listening to other albums of this genre you know how it will proceed after hearing 2 or 3 songs. SOLAR FAKE is different. That’s why it seems difficult to categorize them clearly. Sven: “I simply like too many styles within this giant field of electronic music to limit myself to only one of them. It would be a shame and somehow it would be bore me. I don’t want to compromise. The only restriction I impose on myself is to use synthetically generated sounds only, apart from my voice.”
Some of the tracks seem to be a kind of an allusion to the debut album, maybe the ‘typical’ SOLAR FAKE sound (‘Under the Skies’, ‘Pain Goes By’, ‘More Than This’), but we clearly hear a very positive progress in sound and arrangements. It all sounds much more fresh and you immediately feel like dancing. Then there is the driving ‘No Apologies’, reminiscent of lofi- electropunk, a beautiful 80s revival ‘Where Are You’, a piano ballad with background noises á la Nine Inch Nails (‘The Line of Sight’), an unexpectedly aggressive and evil-sounding ‘Until I’m Back’, and the future number one industrial club hit, in my opinion, called ‘Parasites’. Some songs combine several styles, mostly with shouted, distorted choruses (‘Why did I Raise the Fire’, ‘The Rising Doubt’). SOLAR FAKE are loved for their great cover versions. You can find a highly energetic version of ‘Such a Shame’ by Talk Talk on “FRONTIERS” as well.
Listening to the distorted and aggressive tracks I ask myself where the nice and friendly Sven Friedrich gets all the rage and anger from to perform these songs in such a unique way.
In addition, this album won’t get boring, because you’re always pleasantly surprised. It somehow feels like a compilation, but at the same time it’s all of a piece, which might be due to Sven’s incomparable voice, his ability to write amazing melodies and the really cool production.