Scandroid – Monochrome

Scandroid - Monochrome

Album facts

Release: October 27th, 2017
Label: FiXT
Genre: , , ,
Discogs: Link

A Man Machine

The artist 'Klayton' is one of the artists I respect above all for his seem­ingly end­less cre­ativ­ity and power to cre­ate music. Not only that, the last 'Scandroid' album is just a year ago, no, this work­ahol­ic has real­ized in the mean­time also an album with his Industrial troop 'Circle Of Dust' and the altern­at­ive rock band 'Celldweller'.

Including so much out­put can the qual­ity of the new Scandroid album 'Monochrome' insist the test? We are proud to be able to listen to the early promo copy with a few oth­er press col­leagues to report back to you.

What can we expect from 'Monochrome'?

Like an epic 80s action movie the intro begins on the new album. One of the strongest and greatest album intros I've ever heard. Respect to the 80s! Admire Scandroid!

Klayton has remained loy­al with his pro­ject 'Scandroid'. This is already appar­ent in the second play 'Afterglow', which gives you the secur­ity and con­fid­ence of an old acquaint­ance. Despite the clas­sic­ally used 80s drums sound sequence, the song does not act like a stu­pid repe­ti­tion. The basic beat is fast, demand­ing and invites you to dance. Absolutely awesome.

Cheesy, but very cool

The song 'Rendezvous' was already released as a video and is a real pearl on the album. Stuffed with retro romance, the song flat­ters a whole dec­ade in an acous­tic and lyr­ic­al way. The lyr­ics are a bit cheesy and naive, but that is what makes this won­der­ful Synth Pop song so spe­cial. I love this song!

Klayton Photo 2017
Klayton aka Scandroid

A tribute to the King of Pop

'Thriller' was/is one of the biggest hits of the King of Pop 'Michael Jackson'. Scandroid is pay­ing trib­ute to the artist, who died far too early, with this great suc­cess­ful cov­er ver­sion. This is not just an ordin­ary cov­er ver­sion, it is more a fant­ast­ic inter­pret­a­tion in 'Scandroid' style. I'm sure Michael would have loved this cover.

A more gloomy sound is the title track 'Monochrome'. A dark and threat­en­ing atmo­sphere of a SciFi dysto­pia builds slowly. Moody in the mid-tempo range and with dis­tor­ted voices that sound like robots, Scandroid cre­ates a com­pletely dif­fer­ent side of his Synthwave sound.

In a world of col­or I see in monochrome
Lyric line in 'Monochrome' by 'Scandroid'

Scandroid is the new vintage shit

You can really hear that 'Scandroid' does not copy or imit­ate the sound of the 80s. He lives with 'Scandroid' the 80s in the here and now. 'Future Bloodline' is in prin­ciple a mod­ern-sound­ing Synth Pop song. However, eleg­antly cam­ou­flaged with typ­ic­al ana­log syn­thes­izer it sounds from the dec­ade of the Rubik Cube and the Commodore C64.

This is fol­lowed by anoth­er hit which we could present as an exclus­ive video premiere. 'A Thousand Years' is def­in­itely one of the most catchy tracks on the album and my per­son­al favour­ite song on 'Monochrome'. Just take a look at the linked video, if this has not happened yet.

A colourful firework – The new Synthwave

Every vis­it­or who has already read the one or the oth­er review knows that I per­son­ally do not really like instru­ment­al music and that I pun­ish this with a rather poor rat­ing. But this is the way the game is played in our track by track review. All the more sur­pris­ing is the fact that the instru­ment­al track 'On The Face Of The Deep' has tied me to the speak­ers like an excit­ing Sci-Fi movie on the screen. An almost magic­al moment.

With the atti­tude of a ener­get­ic Electrorock song 'The Veil' blasts throught the air. In addi­tion to the typ­ic­al Synthwave ele­ments, power­ful elec­tric gui­tars are also used here, which makes the album a more var­ied one.

Shut up and take my money

The album title is already some­how mis­lead­ing. The album 'Monochrome' is more like an acous­tic col­our explo­sion. Synthwave has nev­er soun­ded bet­ter and more var­ied than on the cur­rent 'Scandroid' album.

Apart from the 3 instru­ment­al tracks with only 2 stars, 'Scandroid' has delivered an incred­ible score here. We strongly recom­mend you buy the album. A bet­ter Synthwave album will prob­ably not be in 2017. Big con­grats to this masterpiece.

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

Scandroid - Monochrome
Scandroid – Monochrome
2518
Afterglow
Rendezvous
Thriller
Oblivia
Monochrome
The Force Theme
Future Bloodline
A Thousand Years
On The Face of The Deep
The Veil
Searching For A Lost Horizon
Thriller (PYLOT Remix)
Recommend
Afterglow
Rendezvous
A Thousand Years
Weak
Oblivia
The Force Theme
Searching For A Lost Horizon
3.8
Fantastic

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2518
Afterglow
Rendezvous
Thriller
Oblivia
Monochrome
The Force Theme
Future Bloodline
A Thousand Years
On The Face of The Deep
The Veil
Searching For A Lost Horizon
Thriller (PYLOT Remix)
Final Score