Faderhead – Night Physics

Faderhead - Night Physics

Album facts

Release: November 10th, 2017
Label: Not A Robot Records
Genre: , , ,
Discogs: Link

An epic evolution

On the already 9th stu­dio album 'Faderhead' set the bench­mark a bit high­er. Threatening, dark and extremely thought­ful I would describe the first impres­sion. On the long­play­er 'Night Physics', 'Faderhead' has reached a new level of evol­u­tion.

Already on the pre­de­cessor 'FH‑X' have appeared much dark­er tracks, such as 'The Silence Around Me' or 'Escape Gravity', which were cel­eb­rated by the fans. On this album, this devel­op­ment has been driv­en and the fans can look for­ward to the darkest 'Faderhead' album of his career.

Know Your Darkness

The title track shows where the jour­ney is going on 'Night Physics'. Melancholic lyr­ics meet power­ful beats and dark melod­ies com­bine with dan­cable rhythms. 'Know Your Darkness' is the most power­ful tune on the new album and has there­fore the pole pos­i­tion earned. A per­fect fusion of a typ­ic­al Faderhead club clas­sic paired with the new dark aura.

Promisingly it con­tin­ues with 'Noise. Voices. Noise. Silence. '. Here you can also hear the newly reached stage of the devel­op­ment pro­cess. The com­bin­a­tion of gentle vocals, indus­tri­al-sound­ing robot chor­us and an almost 'Pet Shop Boys' ‑like bridge, make the song extremely var­ied. Just stay open-minded!

Never burn down your bridges

If you are used to a bit more oomph on your ears, then you should def­in­itely listen to the track 'This Is Your World'. This track is the best proof that it is not a good idea to tear down the bridges you've passed. Otherwise, a great club track like 'This Is Your World' would not be on the new album. Thanks Sami.

Faderhead - Press Photo 2016
Faderhead – Press Photo

Unusually, 'All The Devils' begins with the sounds of an acous­tic gui­tar. However, this weaves itself very smoothly into the elec­tron­ic con­struct. Very pro­found and almost heart­break­ing is the song text about that what hap­pens after­wards. What do I leave? Am I where I wanted to go? Thoughts that every­one can under­stand well.

Dance through the night

The title track 'Night Physics' is like hug­ging an old friend. The track plays in the upper midtempo range and sounds like a typ­ic­al 'Faderhead' fire­crack­er again.

'Night Away' is not only close to the name of the pre­vi­ous track. Also sound-tech­nic­ally, the song is in almost the same tempo range and offers mainly the old 'Faderhead' fan­base more famil­i­ar sounds.

The new style

Very clearly you hear the style change in the very hot and var­ied track 'We'll Be Far'. Yes, there are typ­ic­al 'Faderhead' sounds in the instru­ment­al­iz­a­tion, but the whole con­struct sounds totally new and fresh. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think the song is much more layered than the usu­al FH tracks. For me that means, both thumbs up!

 … My eyes are closed, my heart is open …
Lyric line in 'LH 006' by 'Faderhead'

You can relax on the album 'Night Physics' at the bal­lad 'LH 006'. The song took me on the flight to the mel­an­choly unknown. Into the unknown because I have con­sidered all the time about wheth­er Sami Yahya sings of the long­ing of a per­son or his homet­own. At least the song has a lot of room for inter­pret­a­tion. What's your though? Please write in the com­ments below.

Follow your heart

Once again, 'Demons Go' proves that 'Faderhead' is more com­plex than its crit­ics claim. For me per­son­ally one of the high­lights on the album. The track is very dynam­ic and when the melody starts in the chor­us I am reminded of the gloomy EBM / Synthpop nightclub I usu­ally vis­ited in the 90s. Almost a new edi­tion of a nos­tal­gic feeling.

The num­ber 'Late' is the most clas­sic­al piece from the Synth Pop genre on the album, even though it is, let's say, very mod­ernly inter­preted. It is very catchy and 100% radio-friendly, without derog­at­ory meaning.

'Nothing Changes' is a son­ic gren­ade on the album. It has the light­ness of a 90s main­stream Techno / Ambient / Eurobeat song in a fun way. But there are still enough DNA traces of 'Faderhead' to find. An incred­ibly great and spe­cial song.

The best Faderhead so far

Despite the remark­able music­al evol­u­tion of this album, old 'Faderhead' fans do not have to be scared. The mix­ture is per­fectly bal­anced on the album 'Night Physics', sounds extremely var­ied and fresh.

I admit it, I'm in love with the 'Night Physics'. It's the best 'Faderhead' album so far for me. I espe­cially recom­mend the album to any­one who may not have been able to get warm with 'Faderhead'. Here it is worth to listen again and to think over the opin­ion. For every­one else who likes 'Faderhead' this is a must-have anyway.

By the way, this album also made it into our art­icle ‘The best Synth Pop and genre-related albums 2017‘. Read now.

Track By Track Rating

Faderhead - Night Physics
Faderhead – Night Physics
Know Your Darkness
Noise. Voices. Noise. Silence.
This Is Your World
Them Skinny Witches
All the Devils
Night Physics
Night Away
We'll Be Far
LH 006
Demons Go
Late
Nothing Changes
Last Chance To Begin
Recommend
Know Your Darkness
We'll Be Far
Demons Go
Weak
(Nothing to report here)
4
Awesome

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Know Your Darkness
Noise. Voices. Noise. Silence.
This Is Your World
Them Skinny Witches
All the Devils
Night Physics
Night Away
We'll Be Far
LH 006
Demons Go
Late
Nothing Changes
Last Chance To Begin
Final Score