Italian heavy psych/drone/krautrock act Modern Stars to release new album »Termination« on March 1st; first single and music video »Bartleby« streaming!

Rome, Italy based heavy psych/drone/krautrock act Modern Stars will release their new album »Termination« on March 1st, 2024 via Clostridium Record / Little Cloud Records / Sister 9 Recordings.

Watch a music video for the first single »Bartleby«, available now on all major streaming platforms!

Tracklist:
01. If/Then
02. Nowhere
03. Confession
04. Bartleby
05. Organization
06. Be Pure
07. Coming Down

Courtesy of Metaversus PR:

»Termination« is an album inspired by the halting problem in computer theory. In computability theory, the halting problem is the problem of determining, from a description of an arbitrary computer program and an input, whether the program will finish running or continue to run forever. The halting problem is undecidable, meaning that no general algorithm exists that solves the halting problem for all possible program input pairs. This is true also for human life, as it goes up and down and one can’t program it, because simply you cannot predict the future, and even if we could there are so many variables that can easily fuck up any sort of forecast.

The first couple of songs are about a man without faith in the computer age (»If/Then«) who inevitably feels lost (»Nowhere«). He starts to believe in both religion (»Confession«) and corporate society schemes (»Organization«), but when he finds out that they are both deeply incompatible and nevertheless connected to each other, he relentlessly quit, not caring anymore about nothing (»Bartleby«) except for true love and salvation (»Be Pure«). When the end finally arrives, for him it feels like an absolution (»Coming Down«).

»Termination« will be released on LP, CD and all digital platforms on March 1st through Clostridium Record (EU), Little Cloud Records (USA) and Sister 9 Recordings (UK). Find preorders at the Modern Stars Bandcamp HERE.

Watch Modern Stars’s »Bartleby« video HERE.

Biography:
Modern Stars is an Italian neo psych rock band formed by Andrea Merolle, Barbara Margani, and Andrea Sperduti. They showcase a unique musical style characterized as instinctive, flickering, fuzzy, aerial, groovy, bizarre, distorted, harmonious, and dissonant. Influenced by bands like Spacemen 3, Primal Scream, Suicide. Modern Stars released their debut album »Silver Needles« (MiaCameretta Records) in 2020 and sophomore album »PsychIndustrial« (MiaCameretta Records). Their third studio work »Space Trips for the Masses« was released in 2022 via Little Cloud Records, and received acclaim as one of the best psych albums of the year in various fanzines.

Line-up:
Andrea Merolle – Electronics, Guitars and Vocals
Barbara Margani – Vocals
Andrea Sperduti – Drums
Mario Bruni – Bass

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well