V/A – United States Of Melancholia - Part I - Post Punk GDR 1982 - 1990 DLP Noiserock ” and “Rhododendrons Coral Aspides

” and “Rhododendrons Coral Aspides

piano interludes that create a subdued

designed by Ilg Santer architects

fashioned for snooping searchers and paranoid lurkers

and "an exciting milestone" by Pitchfork

V/A – United States Of Melancholia - Part I - Post Punk GDR 1982 - 1990 DLP Noiserock ” and “Rhododendrons Coral AspidesThe 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