--- release: artist....: ASSASSUN album.....: Retrofate type......: album source....: WEB/MP3 tracks....: 10 label.....: Blackjack Illuminist Records store date: 2025-09-19 catalogue#: #Catnr encoder...: LAME3.99r quality...: 320 kbps / 44100Hz / Joint stereo URL.......: https://open.qobuz.com/album/rkb3kxow9cf7b genre.....: Electronic genres....: - synthpunk - rap alternative - postpunk - industrial - goth - ebm dark electro - darkwave - alternative - Berlin similar...: - Blood Handsome - Fashion Cult - Harsh R - Vlimmer - Bestial Mouths artist links : discogs : https://www.discogs.com/artist/10733260 last.fm : https://www.last.fm/music/ASSASSUN release links: bandcamp : https://blackjackilluministrecords.bandcamp.com/album/retrofate tracklist.: - [ 01. Poisonalan 03:48.01 ] - [ 02. At the Kiwi Crates 03:07.67 ] - [ 03. 1995 03:06.73 ] - [ 04. Past/I N B E T W E E N/Future 03:15.27 ] - [ 05. D.E.A.T.H. 03:37.50 ] - [ 06. The Sons of the United Plagues 04:06.18 ] - [ 07. Abysmalism 03:31.35 ] - [ 08. Off the Globe 03:16.95 ] - [ 09. GATEKEEPER 03:22.26 ] - [ 10. The Concrete of Time 04:24.90 ] comment...: | ASSASSUN's 4th record, "Retrofate" spans ten tracks — a descent into industrial synthpunk/EBM/post-punk. Jagged rhythms, glitching synths, stark spoken-sung delivery, and lyrical urgency shape the album. Thematically, it reflects on social decay, personal alienation, and our collective identity crisis.Sound-wise, you could imagine it somewhere between irate Clipping, a parallel timeline of early Nine Inch Nails, and Sleaford Mods on a havocked hotel lobby techno party.In short: dense, raw, uncompromising.PRESS RELEASE: EnglishOn his fourth full-length Retrofate, Berlin-based artist Alexander Donat (Vlimmer, Fir Cone Children, WHOLE) sharpens his vision for ASSASSUN and fuses jagged electronics, punk urgency, and poetic sharpness, crafting songs that are as visceral as they are analytical. Behind the sonic aggression lies a stark honesty, where abrasion and sensitivity collide. Synthpunk laced with narrative weight. Across its ten tracks, Retrofate captures the contradictions of modern life — hyperconnectivity paired with isolation, endless choice yet paralyzing fate, political noise against personal silence.Musically, the record thrives on tension: claustrophobic beats clash with jagged synths, while Donat’s urgent, spoken-sung delivery oscillates between diary confession and social commentary. The result is unsettling but magnetic — songs that drag listeners into their dissonance only to reveal hidden hooks beneath the grit. Where Sunset Skull (2022) arrived like a fractured warning—percussion-driven, apocalyptic and raw—and Chronic Quicksand Depression Morning (2023) dug the dystopian grooves deeper with industrial weight and narrative grit, Post-Climax (2024) loosened the melodic hooks amid noirish electronic landscapes. Retrofate crystallizes these strains into the most concentrated and uncompromising ASSASSUN record to date. Its restless drive reflects a world in flux, an artist wrestling with the weight of history and the chaos of the present. It's music that resists resolution. biography.: | Read more on Last.fm