2016 Atomized

Rock · 2017 · 12 tracks · 47m

2016 Atomized

The Raveonettes

A digital noir pivot replacing garage-rock grit with cold synths and drum machines. The Raveonettes trade their wall of sound for a lonely, shimmering electronic pulse.

It's like a shoegaze band got trapped inside a 1980s computer and decided to make a noir soundtrack.

A cold, digital loneliness that finds a strange kind of comfort in urban isolation.

2016 Atomized · vs · The Raveonettes

Drum Machine+4.0σ

The production is built around drum machine than this artist usually allows.

Tracklist · 12 Tracks · 47m

01

This World Is Empty (Without You)

2:22

02

Run Mascara Run

2:57

03

EXCUSES

3:41

04

Junko Ozawa

2:54

05

Scout

4:12

06

Won’t You Leave Me Alone

3:22

07

Where Are You Wild Horses

3:15

08

A Good Fight

3:26

09

This Is Where It Ends

2:46

10

Choke on Love

2:19

11

Fast Food

3:50

12

PENDEJO

12:00

Moments Worth Waiting For

The stark, mechanical pulse of This World Is Empty (Without You) that strips away the band's usual guitar wall for something colder.

The sudden shift into a twelve-minute ambient-noise odyssey on the closing track PENDEJO.

The way the signature vocal harmonies float like ghosts over the brittle synth-pop beat of Junko Ozawa.

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