Kirlian Camera - Cold Pills (Scarlet Gate Of Toxic Daybreak)

Marking their 40th anniversary, Kirlian Camera return with their darkest and most ambitious work to date. Cold Pills (Scarlet Gate of Toxic Daybreak) is a massive double album that finds the duo—Angelo Bergamini and Elena Alice Fossi—pivoting away from their recent pop-leaning experiments toward a more sinister, subconsciously metallic sound. While the record retains the band's uncanny ability to compose captivating electronic hymns, it drenches them in a "dangerously hypnotic" atmosphere that reflects the bleakness of a world forever changed by global upheaval.

At the heart of the record is the stunning vocal range of Elena Alice Fossi, whose performance shifts seamlessly from seductive beauty to ethereal grace. Against a backdrop of multi-layered industrial constructions and subversive lyrical content, Kirlian Camera continue to hold a "truth-telling mirror" to the world. With its monochrome artwork and dystopian themes, Cold Pills is a definitive statement from a band that has spent four decades exploring the extraordinary contrast between the pleasing and the gloomy.