The synthpop dichotomy runs thus - if you’re not ‘ebullient’, you’re ‘dystopian’. Unless you’re Fatamorgana, in which case you’re kinda both. Out on La Vida Es Un Mus and featuring one half of the interstellar Belgrado, Terra Alta displays that midnight driving at the end of time melancholy that’s the hallmark of near all great synth punk. But it’s also strangely joyful too.
Not a Spanish speaker, I can’t attest to what these songs are about - could quite easily be riddled with the usual weltschmerz of such things. Maybe it’s this weird unseasonal weather, but for once in my life I’d prefer to believe they’re having a good time all of the time. ‘Goodbye Horses’ in the blazing Spanish sun, dancing with a bursting heart. Feels like heaven to me.
Fatamorgana - Terra Alta
£15.00
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