Finally, a new Camouflage release! A new Camouflage single 'Motif Sky' is due today and the new album 'Relocated' is due at the end of August. Camouflage has been the purveyor of excellent synthpop and electronic music since the release of their second album, 'Methods of Silence'. Initially, Camouflage was considered by many to be an excellent Depeche Mode clone after the release of their first album 'Voices and Images' with its poor English lyrics but excellent compositions. However, by the second album, 'Methods of Silence', Camouflage cleared up the poor language issues and managed to forge an identity of their own with a work with an oriental feel, 'Methods of Silence'. Since then, Camouflage has not looked back and has released numerous splendid albums.
I have always preferred Camouflage to Depeche Mode since the release of 'Methods of Silence' and if I were on a desert island and had to choose between Camouflage and Depeche Mode, you know where my Depeche Mode albums will go. In the sea. When Depeche Mode embraced a boring electro-blues direction with rock 'n roll pretensions and ceased being innovative in 1993, Camouflage remained adventurous with one release after another despite being overlooked. Camouflage just weren't delivering horrid stadium rock to the masses along the lines of U2, Depeche Mode, REM and their irk.
Tracklisting
1. Motif Sky
2. Real Thing (Longer)
3. Conversation (Non-Album Track)
4. Motif Sky (Extended Version)
5. Motif Sky (Smallboy Dub Remix)
Source: Camouflage Website: http://www.camouflage-music.com/en/news.php and Camouflage newsletter
4 comments:
wow! I remember methods of silence! way back man. the hand drawn hummingbird (but coloured like kingfisher but really who cares?) love is a shield, on islands, one fine day....classic."german" sounding but with a dreamlike essence. can't describe...like a collaboration between fernand leger and chagall.
Yes, the hand-drawn stuff. Ink lines. Quirky and nice. It shows up very well on the vinyl album cover. I have that.
When it was re-formatted for a CD format, it can't capture the essence of that piece.
There is a dreamlike essence as you have described. I recall being on the train from Kings Cross earlier last week. The album was playing in the background. The landscape was rushing by and everything was surreal. The videos of One Fine Day and Love is a Shield, they were quite something. I can't begin how to describe them.
Ok I was just checking out the website and I think they have sold me. Well, based on the cover art alone I think I'll get it. :)
Surely you wouldn't throw to the sea those DM albums before they became stadium rock stars, right?
Well, V, I would still choose Camouflage over them.
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