This might be a debut, but the members of Rotersand, Rasc, Gun and Krischan, all have a past in different projects. Rasc is a member of The Fair Sex, a band Gun have worked with, and they have both worked with 1am and Warm. Krischan has worked as a producer for different techno and electro constellations. With that given it should come as no surprise that this is a well produced and well sounding album. What surprises me however is how well the album blends together, not in a bad way, on the contrary, this is a varied album, not a collection of songs. From the first track to the last it has a certain flow, whereas the songs blend into the next one. And I have to admit, the first thing that struck me was how well produced it is, I guess you could say I couldn’t see the trees because of the forest the first time around.
However, now that I have been listening to the album a lot there are certain trees that stick out, for instance “The Fire” with its driving monotone bass line, as well as the cool anthem “Social Distortion”, where Sina of Psychobitch does a guest performance, which has been getting a lot of airtime at my place. There are a few more upbeat tracks worth mentioning here, but I’ll skip on to the slower “One Level Down”, which is a ballad complete with acoustic guitars and strings, it might sound a bit according to the manual, but I think it is a really nice track.
Finally, if you’re looking for an electronic dance album with good vocals, catchy choruses I truly, madly, deeply recommend you to get this one. And if you get intimidated by that description, thinking “this is another one of those boring futurepop albums” think again, it is not. It is so much more than that, but still there are some points at which it is just that.