{"id":11061,"date":"2022-03-08T22:30:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T21:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/addtowantlist.com\/?p=11061"},"modified":"2022-03-08T22:36:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T21:36:22","slug":"new-album-subterfuge-dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addtowantlist.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/08\/new-album-subterfuge-dots\/","title":{"rendered":"New album: Subterfuge || Dots."},"content":{"rendered":"

Good news for fans of perfect pop\/rock songs with jangly guitars and vocal harmonies: Subterfuge<\/a> is back! The 6-piece indie pop band from D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany, has been around for 30 years, but released their last LP in 2005<\/a>. With Dots.<\/em><\/a>, their new (5th) full-length album, they show that they still know their stuff. Reportedly, we should consider the 12 new songs as a biography: “Just real life turned into music.” Their lyrics about life-as-it-is are tragicomic (“There’s something you said \/\/ Before I grow old \/\/ I’d rather be dead \/\/ When we were young \/\/ Your hair was long \/\/ Now that it’s gone \/\/ You look like Right Said Fred” – from Stephanie Said<\/em><\/a>), the music is melancholic (the sound has its origins in the psychedelic 60’s, but with more modern influences from college rock, shoegaze and jangle pop), and their Super8 style videos<\/a> are highly entertaining. “Why do I always fail to win?” they wonder in one of the standout tracks. We can safely say that the tide has turned, because this new work is definitely a winner.<\/p>\n