Cabaret Voltaire Announce First Album in 26 Years, Share New Song: Listen

Cabaret Voltaire are back with their first new studio album since 1994’s The Conversation. Shadow of Fear is out November 20 via Mute. The LP also marks the first release with Richard H. Kirk as the sole member of the group; he brought back Cabaret Voltaire on tour in 2014. Listen to “Vasto” from the new album below.

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“The album was finished just as all the weirdness was starting to kick in,” Kirk said in a statement. “Shadow of Fear feels like a strangely appropriate title. The current situation didn't have much of an influence on what I was doing—all the vocal content was already in place before the panic set in—but maybe due to my nature of being a bit paranoid there are hints in there about stuff going a bit weird and capturing the current state of affairs.”

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Shadow of Fear:

01 Be Free
02 The Power (Of Their Knowledge)
03 Night Of The Jackal
04 Microscopic Flesh Fragment
05 Papa Nine Zero Delta United
06 Universal Energy
07 Vasto
08 What’s Goin’ On

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