![]() ![]() Scheuber could launch us into the dance-floor climaxes of a Project Pitchfork stomper but doesn’t need to. Scheuber’s solo work echoes the song patterns of his other group – slow starts rising into grandiose, synth-lined big beat crescendos – but there’s a sense of clever restraint here, a minimalism that’s more a sign of maturity than anything. It’s a fitting opener, an amuse-bouche that gets the muscles twitching for the dancefloor but conveys a sense of restrained energy: the best is yet to come. “3am” opens Autarcique with pianos, percussion gradually sliding in, followed by a gentle synth backing. In his solo work, Scheuber keeps his finger on the tap of what’s current, prodding his music to newer, faster, more expansively creative levels. The delicate balance between the new and the familiar helps listeners grow along with the musicians and is one of the elements I appreciated about bands with outputs as prodigious as Project Pitchfork. The new material is exciting and different, but it won’t leave fans with a sense of abandonment. One of the marks of both projects is a tendency toward steady, reliable growth neither slipping into the trap of repeating past successes such that they become monotonous nor jumping into new styles so erratically as to leave their fans behind. There’s probably never been a bad Project Pitchfork album or a poor Scheuber release. ![]() ![]() As fans might have hoped, it’s a masterpiece of synthpop songwriting. Scheuber’s been producing solo material since at least 2016, and Autarcique marks his fifth studio album. ![]() The record manifests this quality expertly, offering a delicately constructed balance between his Project Pitchfork roots and his solo capacity to push past those limits, to explore and define a sound just for himself, a finely wrought equilibrium that refines and showcases the innate creative qualities he brought to his other musical projects. It’s a fitting title for a solo album from an artist who is still often associated with his longer-running former band. Scheuber left the band in 2020 to focus on his work, which has proven no less delightful.Īutarcique – autarky – a term from political philosophy denoting a quality of self-sufficiency. Hailing from Hamburg, Germany, Project Pitchfork have 18 studio albums under their belt and have produced countless dancefloor classics. Scheuber is the eponymous solo project of Dirk Scheuber, co-founder and former keyboardist with Project Pitchfork, a group tearing up dark electronic dancefloors since 1990. We'll be grabbing the stream from Dabe later this afternoon at 2pm PDT - he's in there now digging into the new Alan Wake, AWE shit that just dropped in Control.After teasing fans with a handful of singles, Scheuber’s latest full-length Autarcique reveals precisely what those previews hinted at: a superb synthwave album infused with equal parts dark dance beats and fine song-crafting. One of these exquisite battleforms will be on tap for this afternoon and we're incredibly excited to see it in action. Dabe - with a startling coding assist from none other than Gabriel the Younger, who has apparently used the pandemic better than all of us - has put together what could only be called a livery, a coherent visual narrative to contain the disparate racing streams that takes a variety of forms. But! He says he feels okay, even if he won't be able to down king cans of Schilling " Excelsior" Imperial Hard Cider, which frankly might help us the fuck out.īut the celebrations don't end there - we'll also have a version of our new Gabir Motors branded overlay, a mere glimpse of which should return him to spritely health. We weren't sure how it was gonna go this afternoon for the Motorsport Manager stream, after Gabriel's Mouth War at the dentist. Technically, this might be considered an announcement that there even is a game, so if you were wondering, you can now take that part of your brain and put it back to where it was - tending a gnawing, monstrous dread which only seems to grow as you observe it, until the dread and the bedrock of your identity are commingled and inextricable from one another.īut! Let me establish that Zoom Gabe is a real phenomenon and may even be (what I have heard described as) "a mood." This strip is essentially documentary footage. We haven't announced the full lineup for the Acquisitions incorporated game at PAX Online, but you can take this as an announcement that an announcement is coming shortly. ![]()
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