V/A – United States Of Melancholia - Part I - Post Punk GDR 1982 - 1990 DLP Dreampop creating a powerful celebration of

creating a powerful celebration of freedom and expression

The album has more melodies than power chords and more sing-alongs than boredom

It’s simultaneously the band’s darkest and most playful

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William Forsythe / Ballett Frankfurt

V/A – United States Of Melancholia - Part I - Post Punk GDR 1982 - 1990 DLP Dreampop creating a powerful celebration ofThe political revolt of punk was succeeded by the aesthetic adventure of post punk. During the Cold War, dark wave, gothic and industrial also had their equivalents under the unlucky star of the GDR. The title "United States Of Melancholia" refers to a shadowland behind the perpetually rising facade of construction and to a nationally ingrained melancholy that, in the GDR, seemed to well up from deeper strata beneath an officially prescribed cheer