In rave-electro-punk it gurgles and bangs like in the children’s room of an imaginary youth.
Ah, the great Torsun Burkhardt. Even before I got to know his former band Egotronic, I was enthusiastic about his “Büttenrede zu Dresden” on YouTube, about the bombing of Dresden in 1945 and its reception by victim cultists of all stripes and Pegida activists. A masterpiece, also poetically. Egotronic, the shimmering Berlin electropunk band that finally broke up in 2022 after 20 years, was politically very active.
Traveling left-wing theoretically and practically, she played on the keyboard of punk as well as the cultivated Gameboy sound, which had an incredibly cross-generational effect. Now Torsun, together with his wife Sina Synapse and another comrade-in-arms, is on the road as Torsun & the Stereotronics and continues to write the story of his personal music cosmos.
You want to dance to this music in your pajamas as well as in your glittery dress
SONGS TO DISCUSS IN THERAPY models an imaginary youth that we can’t really classify because it’s actually too old. The rave-electro-punk gurgles and clatters like in a child’s room of actually already pubescents who still want to sleep in their Naruto sheets. You want to dance to this music in your pajamas as well as in your glittery dress.
The whole thing is sometimes so 90s that it brings tears to your eyes, but not only. With her fairy-like singing, Sina Synapse repeatedly brings today’s melancholic elements into play, and one is touched when she says: “So everything has shifted. Luckily he doesn’t do drugs. More.” In its consistency, the album reminds of Jean’s team ALKOMERZ, but it wants more. It wants feelings and love and beauty!