Cabaret Voltaire

Share New Track ‘What’s Goin’ On’

“What’s Goin’ On could be the anthem for these troubled times”- Record Collector

“Shadow Of Fear is a brash and confident rebirth” – Uncut 8/10*

“A masterclass in shapeshifting disco” – MOJO 4/5*

CABARET VOLTAIRE share a new track, ‘What’s Goin’ On’, ahead of the release of Shadow Of Fear, the eagerly anticipated new album. The new album, Cabaret Voltaire’s first in 26 years, is as prescient as ever but, explains Uncut, the new track ‘What’s Goin’ On’ “…lets in some light with a soulful and funky groove”.

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Shadow Of Fear is Cabaret Voltaire’s first release with Richard H Kirk as the sole member of the band, and the result is an album that defies categorisation. The tone and personality of Cabaret Voltaire is ingrained into its core as it dances across techno, dub, house, 1970s Kosmische, and general esoteric explorations coupled with mangled vocal samples. It’s a voyage through the history of electronic music that arrives at a new destination.

Cabaret Voltaire has always been a group ahead of their time, even prescient at times, and this album carries on that evolution. Kirk explains, “The current situation didn’t have much of an influence on what I was doing – all the vocal content was already in place before the panic set in – but maybe due to my nature of being a bit paranoid there are hints in there about stuff going a bit weird and capturing the current state of affairs.” Although, as with a lot of Kirk’s work, concrete meaning and narrative is ripe for interpretation rather than being spelled out. “Surrealism has always been really important to Cabaret Voltaire,” says Kirk. “And that’s still present too.”

The genesis of the new album was the 2014 Berlin Atonal festival where Kirk played the first show on his own as Cabaret Voltaire. This began a new era for the pioneering Sheffield outfit whose influence across electronic, post-punk and industrial music remains an untouchable one today. This is new music for a new era: “The mission statement from the off was no nostalgia. Normal rules do not apply. Something for the 21st Century. No old material.”

SHADOW OF FEAR TRACKLISTING

Be Free

The Power (Of Their Knowledge)

Night Of The Jackal

Microscopic Flesh Fragment

Papa Nine Zero Delta United

Universal Energy

Vasto

What’s Goin’ On

Listen to ‘The Power (Of Their Knowledge)’ here:

https://youtu.be/RsmqDtwZFfw

Listen to ‘Vasto’ here:

Pre-order the new album here: https://mute.ffm.to/CV-SOF