ILLEGALE FARBEN + KRATZEN

The fourth album by NDW post-punkers Illegale Farben from Cologne provides a dark, driving soundtrack to the big and small crises in private life and in the world.

Illegale Farben play their grey-black music at the breaking points of post-punk, Neue Deutsche Welle and indie.

Illegale Farben continue to prove themselves to be a band that doesn't stagnate and certainly doesn't repeat itself musically. That doesn't take the easy way out and that manages to give their music the urgency that we feel in every song. As they themselves sing in "March to Doom": "Onward, always onward / The beauty lies in failure."  

https://illegalefarben.bandcamp.com/album/monte-fiasko-2

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