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[Info]

Artist : Information Society
Album : _Hello World
Label : Hakatak
Genre : Pop
Street Date : 2014-00-00
Quality : 254 kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo
Encoder : Lame 3.98.4 -V0
Size : 85.87 MB
Time : 44:03 min
Url : http://informationsociety.us/

[Tracks]

1. Land Of The Blind 3:49
2. The Prize 4:00
3. Where Were You 3:51
4. Get Back 4:09
5. Jonestown 3:30
6. Dancing With Strangers 4:35
7. Beautiful World (Featuring Gerald V. Casale) 3:32
8. Creatures Of Light And Darkness 4:26
9. Above And Below 3:53
10. Let It Burn 4:35
11. Tomorrow The World 3:12
12. Untitled (Hidden Track) 0:31

[Notes]

The first album of new material from the classic lineup of Information
Society (Kurt, Paul and James) in over 20 years. After playing some festival
dates in Summer, 2013 the band began to discuss working on a new album and
the result, _hello world is the offspring. _hello world is rife with songs
that have one foot firmly planted in their past and one foot confidently
resting in the present; it is filled with classic INSOC dance floor fodder
like ""Get Back"", soaring epics like ""Jonestown"", and cinematic textures
like ""Creatures of Light and Darkness"". Embracing the many faces of
synthetic music while remaining organically Information Society, _hello
world isn't as much a rebirth of INSOC as it is a nuclear-powered version
that ups the ante. The first single, ""Land of the Blind,"" is a swirling,
propulsive track that hearkens back to their signature sound yet infuses it
with state of the art production values. Longtime InSoc hero Gerald V.
Casale adds his vocals in a duet with Kurt on their cover of ""Beautiful
World"" which adds a modern splash to the Devo classic. The group stormed
the club charts in the mid '80s with their Freestyle classic ""Running"".
Inspired by the worldwide response to the single, the group seized the
opportunity and moved to New York to record their major label debut,
Information Society, for Tommy Boy/Reprise. Producer Fred Maher was brought
in, fresh from his work on Kraftwerk's Electric CafΘ album, and helped Robb
& co. craft a tight pop sound. Initial buzz for the first single ""What's On
Your Mind (Pure Energy)"" was intense, and proved to be accurate; by the
time the group got to its first in-store appearance, two days after the
record's release, the album was sold out. 2014 is proving to be quite a year
for the band. With history's tendency to repeat itself, it appears INSOC are
poised for another takeover. _Hello World, indeed.