„By now we are living in a world seems fairly inhospitable to us. We aren´t just guests in it, today we all are warriors. We are fightiing every day. Not for surviving like it was at the beginning of human history, perhaps. No, today we are fighting for the method of living.”, Matthias Hübner, 2012
A hard to diagnosing desease costs tens of billions for the economy. The so called burn-out-syndrom claims more and more victims. So it becomes in vogue today a fact that doesn´t makes it easy for victims to identify with it and so more suicides effected by this syndrom than ever. No bacteria, no pathogens and no elements responsible for it. We are sicken by our work, we are sicken by stress we are susceptible to in our private life too. More than a half of interviewed pupils and students said they nearly can´t bear the pressure to get higher marks. A great amount of this interviewed young people use psychotropic drugs already to survive the days in school. In the United States of America five year old girls enters beauty competitions to make their parents proud of them. So these parents robs their children the childhood in a reckless and unparraleled method. We researched and built for a better world someday. Unfortunately there are undesirable side effects no one calculated on it but today we have to bear its burdon: Our world is going faster. Here´s no room left for people don´t stick with it. Nearly no chances for an offtake in our globalised world but more losers against less winners. We are fighting for our kind of living…. …. our life is war! (Leben ist Krieg) These fatalistic title and the provoking layout of the new album of NOVA-SPES forces the interest in it. And that’s right! LEBEN IST KRIEG isn´t a concept album, although the texts relates to the theme written above sometimes in a philosophical way sometimes with personally points of view but never edifying and ever including possibilities for interpreting the songs individually. Not only by the texts you can feel the anger and the consternation of the protagonists about the theme already mentioned. The music of nova-spes is unusual hard without loosing the typical nova-spes-sound. Far less ful of pathos but therefor a little more hardness honoured this album. But it keeps a highly danceable electrical pop with a high recognition value. Its just the best synth-pop the trio ever made in its more than ten years lasting career. That´s the right way. Impressive melodious synth-pop and profound texts together works excellent. It operates well in the clubs and live anyway.
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