Shadow Of Fear was the first Cabaret Voltaire album with Richard H. Kirk as its sole member.
Despite the quarter-of-a-century wait before Shadow Of Fear last November, there’s more new music from Cabaret Voltaire today.
Billion Dollar is taken from the upcoming Shadow Of Funk EP, seen by Richard H. Kirk as part of a companion piece to the 2020 full length which will ultimately comprise four pieces when the drone albums Dekadrone and BN9Drone follow on March 26th and April 23rd respectively.
“Using the latest iteration of the Cabs’ infamous Western Works facility, Kirk also sought inspiration from the past, eschewing production software, often playing sequences by hand and isolating himself from outside musical stimulus,” our Shadow Of Fear review reads.
“Whilst instantly recognisable, Shadow Of Fear avoids dwelling anywhere long enough to be categorised, spanning half a dozen genres, some of which he himself had a part in creating.”
“Those expecting essays in darkness won’t get quite what they expected though; the neat, bass-and-strings driven Night Of The Jackal surges along at 125ish bpm like early Detroit mechanisation, while equally chilling fodder for the weirdest post-vaccine dancefloor, the cyber-brass and blaxploitation samples that haunt closer What’s Goin’ On give it a weird, mischievous humanity.”
