MESH · Fallen Angel | CD

Jewel case CD with 12-page booklet.

Background information about 'Fallen Angel'

Sometimes a record refuses to end. Mesh closed the book on "The Truth Doesn't Matter" and then found the pages kept filling themselves in. Mark Hockings and Richard Silverthorn came off a run of sold-out shows and a stack of Album of the Month nods buzzing with ideas, and the songs that poured out didn't feel like a fresh start at all. They felt like the next chapter of the same story, so the duo did the sensible thing and let them stay there. "Fallen Angel" is what happens when a band listens to its own instincts instead of the calendar.

Call it a mini-album, call it an expansion pack, either way it's a generous one. Four unreleased tracks sit alongside three remixes, a live take and the moody "Tilt", all wrapped into 42 minutes of that sleek, melancholy synth-pop Mesh have made their signature. The title cut opens with a slow-burning ache, "Protect Your Neck" sharpens the edges, and "The Meeting Of The Broken" lands somewhere between heartbreak and the dancefloor. The Olaf Wollschlaeger remix of "Trying To Save You" stretches the original into new shapes, while the Cologne live version of "The Truth Doesn't Matter" captures the sweat and the roar of a room that knows every word.

What makes this more than a stopgap is the intent behind it. These aren't leftovers swept off the studio floor; they're deliberate extensions of a world the band built and clearly isn't done exploring. For anyone who wore out the last album, this is the encore you didn't dare ask for.

For fans of: Depeche Mode, VNV Nation, Covenant, And One, Camouflage

Other Versions

BLACK LP · 21,99 € CLEAR LP · 23,99 €

Track listing

1. Fallen Angel
2. Protect Your Neck
3. Not This Time
4. The Meeting Of The Broken
5. Tilt
6. Trying to Save You (Single Version)
7. Fallen Angel (Extended)
8. The Truth Doesnt Matter (Live in Cologne)
9. Trying To Save You (Remix by Olaf Wollschlaeger)

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