Visonia presents a serious emotional payload with debut album, 'Impossible Romance'. The follow-up to the uncannily effective 'Die Reisen' twelve-inch collaboration with Dopplereffekt (all three tracks are featured here), reprises that same heart-on-sleeve emotive appeal across twelve compositions, indulging a real passion for Italo and '80s synth-pop, spliced with tensile EBM and electro-techno signatures. It really pulls no punches, delivering tear-jerking, maximalist synth peaks and yearning vocals propelled by pumping yet elegant machine rhythms at every turn. It's a triumph of sincere vulnerability over hard-nosed aloofness, designed to really catch out even the stoniest hearts with the aforementioned single's cuts such as the slow-mo waltz 'Anatarctic Love' and the rolling techno-pop diamond which lends this LP its title; while demonstrating a lip-bitingly effective dancefloor suss in the soaring electro-techno of 'Between Lies and Real Looks'; the Francophile missile, 'Beat Fequencies' with collaborator Mad Moizel; or the darkside momentum and Euro bliss of 'Anonymous Heroes'. Basically, trust your gut with this one. It won't lie. [Boomkat]
• Juana de Arco
• Impossible Romance
• Lágrimas de Felicidad
• Human Dysfunction
• Anonymous Heroes
• Return
• Visonia & Mad Moizel - Beat Frequencies
• Visonia et Dopplereffekt - Die Reisen
• La Dernière Valse
• Between Lies and Real Looks
• Antarctic Love
• The Old Man and the Girl In His Arms
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