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Electric Sun

by VNV Nation

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realbibliodude
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realbibliodude I have been following VNV and attending their concerts for years. They are an amazing band, so prolific, well travelled, classy, and down to earth. Ronan is such a humble, amazing fellow. I'll never forget his taking a person's cellphone so he could give the person on the other end in hospital a front row experience. But this track, their music, is so moving. Lyrics are so well thought out, and their sound so consistently emotive over the years. Can't say enough good about VNV. Favorite track: Prophet.
Durchkreuzer
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Durchkreuzer No regrets here, truly a proper VNV release. Ronan continues his progress to dominate the songs with his voice. Surely Wait is the most elaborate track but I got totally hooked by the classic EBM tune. Favorite track: Artifice.
dlundh
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dlundh VNV Nation delivers in full on the new album with this track as a standout. Beautiful. Favorite track: The Game.
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Electric Sun 06:43
ALL THE GOOD ARE DREAMING LOCKED IN HALF-FORGOTTEN LORE PROCLAIMING – “WE ARE FREE!” AND SULLENLY OBEY IS IRONY A MUSE? DICHOTOMY EMBELLISHED IN A WORLD THAT KNOWS NO LOVE IN A WORLD THAT KNOWS NO HATE HALF OF ME IS GONE THE REST WILL SOON BE LEAVING ALL TRACE ERASED IN RAIN VANITY IS FLEETING AND SO, THE FALL FROM GRACE OH GOD, WHAT HAVE THEY DONE? THE VICTIMS VENERATE OR AM I ONLY DREAMING? THERE’RE RUMOURS OF A SAINT A WRATH INCARNATE, RINGED IN FLAME THE RIGHTEOUS COWER AND HIDE FEARING PUNISHMENT AND BLAME BEYOND THIS THERE IS NOTHING IN DUTY ALL WILL PRAY AND ARE WE ONLY DREAMING? THE DECLINE OR THE ASCENSION AIMLESS, FAILING, SELF-ASSURED THE RIGHTEOUS PATH TO DESTINY THAT HUMANITY WON’T ENDURE ARTIFICIAL, RINGING HOLLOW LAMENTS FOR WHAT IS GONE RUNNING BACKWARDS CRYING “FORWARD” LIKE A BATTLE CAN BE WON HOW CAN ANYONE PLACE TRUST IN FATE WHEN HOPES ARE LEFT TO DIE? UNCARING OF THE COMMON PLIGHT UNLESS FORCED TO CARE AND CRY WE’RE PARTICLES IN MOTION WE CAN’T ACCEPT WE’VE NO CONTROL RACING HELPLESS THROUGH THE ÆTHER STARING OUTWARD FROM THE WORLD OR AM I ONLY DREAMING? ARE WE ONLY DREAMING OF THE ELECTRIC SUN?
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FLASH BACKWARD TO THE TIME YOUR SILHOUETTE DISGUISED THE GLOW OF NIGHT’S REFLECTION YOUR OUTLINE LOCKED IN PHASE LIKE A VIVID, LIQUID HAZE LIT UP, THE NIGHT ELECTRIC A MOMENT STAGED FOR US UNTIL WE TURN TO DUST UNTIL TIME’S EVAPORATED BUT WERE WE EVER THERE— ENRAPTURED, UNAWARE? WE WERE LOVERS ONLY DREAMING WE DARED ETERNITY AND WON LONG BEFORE THE RAIN HAD COME WE BUILT A UNIVERSE WE HELD A COSMOS IN OUR HANDS UNSTOPPABLE FORCE, THE PUREST LIGHT TO SET THE FIRMAMENT ALIGHT WE BUILT A UNIVERSE SO WE COULD HOLD THE COSMOS IN OUR HANDS THE SWITCH TURNED TO ENGAGE THE POWER RUSHED AND RAGED LIT UP, YOUR FACE ELECTRIC LIGHTSPEED IN A DREAM THE STATIC BURSTS, THE STREAM THE ULTRASONIC STRAINS OF MUSIC REVIVED IN YOUTH AGAIN WITH EACH STEP AS WE CLAIM SHATTERED MIRRORS IN THE RAINFALL BUT WERE WE EVER THERE— ENRAPTURED, UNAWARE? WE WERE LOVERS ONLY DREAMING
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The Game 04:14
LET'S PLAY A GAME ONE WHERE WE MAKE THE RULES THE ULTIMATE PRIZE THE HIGHEST OF STAKES, WIN OR LOSE CHANCE REVEALS ALL DECIDING ITS DIFFERENT MOVES FATE ISN’T A FRIEND FATE DIVIDES THE SHEEP FROM THE WOLVES SOME PLAY TO WIN SOME PLAY FOR FORTUNE SOME FOR FAME SOME PLAY FOR LOVE OF ALL, THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME FORFEIT OR CALL ELATION OR MISERY BUT THAT’S HOW IT’S PLAYED AND THE HOUSE ALWAYS GETS ITS WAY EVENS AND ODDS PUT IT ON RED OR BLACK OR DIE AT THE TURN WAGERS OR GOING BANK FIRST BLOOD IS DRAWN PARRY, RIPOSTE, DEFEND WE’RE PLAYING FOR KEEPS AND HOLDING A LOSING HAND EVERYONE LIES DRESSED UP IN MISANTHROPIC SMILES PLANNING THEIR MOVES THE PIECES THEY’LL SACRIFICE AND THEY SAY ALL IS FAIR NO CHANCE TO RESIGN IN STYLE NO WINNERS, JUST FOOLS THE GAME IS JUST GUN SMOKE AND SHARPENED KNIVES
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Invictus 04:34
DO THE LANTERNS LEAD US ON FROM AFAR? DO OUR EYES BELIE THE MEMORY OF THE FRIENDS WE’VE LOST? TAKE COMFORT, IF YOU BELIEVE YOU’LL MEET AGAIN BUT UNTIL THAT DAY, AS WE MORTALS MAY, LIVE TO HONOUR THEM LET US NOT BE WEIGHTED BY WHAT WE CAN’T CONTROL THE PAST CANNOT BE CHANGED, THE FUTURE CALLS US ON AND SHOULD YOU TRY AND FAIL—STAND AND START AGAIN THE DEEPEST CUTS ALL HEAL LEAVING ONLY WHAT YOU LEARNED FROM THEM TEMPERED BY THE FORGE, LADEN AS THE DIE ARE CAST ONWARDS WE MOVE BEARING ALL OUR WOUNDS UNTIL THE WORST IS PAST IN THE AFTERMATH WE’LL ANSWER TO OURSELVES FOR OUR MEASURE OF OUR ACTIONS AND FOR OUR VICTORIES SO WE CHANGE SO WE CHANGE THE WORLD HIDING NOT AMONG THE THOUSANDS BUT WITH A VOICE THAT’S HEARD AND THE AGES TURN AS THE AGES TURNED BEFORE IN THE ACTS OF OUR TENACITY, LONG MAY WE ENDURE
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Artifice 04:55
Count to three bring the world to its knees A million ways to live or die Time to put on a show because there’s no place to go Cut and print Go the extra mile There’s no use crying about a world that’s dying and the things that you say you’d do You can justify but still deny that the problem begins with you Form and function, a self-destruction The cause and effect in one The night’s not over Dawn’s no closer A drink and you’re on the run Put on a different face to each and every place Every scene is a different role Put on your best attire Start the fire Outside the flashbulbs glow Is it so much fun to be the bullet and the gun --the thing that you revile You don’t do quiet Blazing guns and riots Catastrophe’s back in style Your back’s to the wall but you won’t take the fall for the schemes of your wasted youth Running out of time to revel in your crimes and the lies and the twisted truths Love’s blind Confines Make it personal and hit the ground Plan and accept One false step and your house of cards falls down There’s no complaining about a world that’s failing, the things that you say you’d do You’ve a different excuse for every person that you use Chaos loves to dance with you
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Prophet 05:41
WE SELL YOU REDEMPTION WE TELL YOU THAT YOU HAVE TO BE SAVED WE PROMISE FORGIVENESS AND TEACH YOU HOW TO LOVE WITH HATE WE SELL YOU SALVATION THE WAGES OF SIN MUST BE PAID OUR METHODS SPAN THE AGES ALL WE DO IS CHANGE THE NAME GIVE YOUR LIFE IN SACRIFICE AS IF ALL WILL LOVE YOU WE SELL YOU A CAUSE AND GIVE YOU A REASON TO FIGHT MANUFACTURE RETRIBUTION AND DEVOTION OF THE ACOLYTES CONFESS AND BE CLEANSED! OBEY US AND DO AS WE SAY! DICTATING YOUR OPINION UNTIL POISON’S ALL THAT RUNS IN YOUR VEINS GIVE YOUR LIFE IN SACRIFICE AS IF ALL WILL LOVE YOU JOIN THE MOVEMENT! JOIN THE CAUSE! EXALT OUR NAMES AS ITS OWN REWARD DON’T GIVE IT TO OTHERS, GIVE IT ALL TO US WE’RE SELLING BETRAYAL IN EXCHANGE FOR TRUST WE’LL OWN YOU BODY, MIND, HEART AND SOUL WHEN YOU JOIN THE RIGHTEOUS AS THE NUMBERS GROW WE’LL SELL YOU MEANING WHEN YOU BUY OUR LOVE WHEN YOU BUY OUR LOVE
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Wait 07:26
Shadows of the Sun, enraptured in the sound Hypernormal frequencies illuminating clouds We televise the noise to all that we can reach The broadcasts preach the word of better times and peace We automate the lies with images we fake Machines to grant our every wish when all we do is take! To Apathy we drink when dancing in the flames A chance for us to celebrate because all we do is wait! Who has the most is King Constructed to be served so that which is destroyed is cheered on while it burns With nothing left to lose and seconds ticking fast, though time is running out, all we do is laugh— and hide among the crowd, drowning in its noise, in envy of the beautiful facades of shallow grace The best would try and fail, feel helpless at the task but lead as if they rule in hell when all we do is wait! Our fortunes running out and our options running dry With no one else to turn to, still, we sit and cry We’re dancing in the flames to the sounds of our demise Drinking to our apathy because all we do is wait The King, the sacred Crown, the Chalice and the Mace who rule over these famine lands whose bounty goes to waste A power that corrupts, regaling this as fate The waters rising to our necks and all we do is wait
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I DROVE TO THE POINT WHERE THIS ALL STARTED WHERE ALL OF THE STARS SEEMED FURTHER AWAY UNCHARTED, UNMARKED NO MAP AND NO BEARING WHERE THE THIEF OF THE SUN STILL COVETS THE DAY THERE’S A HOLE IN THE SKY TO LURE AND TO TEMPT SAYING I AM THE TEMPEST AND I AM YOUR WAY BUT THE FAINTEST OF SIGNALS THROUGH STATIC, THROUGH NOISE A DRIFTING TRANSMISSION A SHIMMER A VOICE SET COURSE BY THE SOUND THROUGH VEIL AND DIVIDE FOR ALL WHO ARE LOST CAN ALWAYS BE FOUND IN BRILLIANCE, ARISE! AND IN VASTNESS, IGNITE A TORCH OF YOUR PURPOSE IN SPIRIT, UNITE! SET COURSE BY THE SIGNAL WHEN DAY’S GLIMMER FADES WHEN ALL OF THE STARS SEEM SO FAR AWAY
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Run 06:24
WHERE TO START? WHERE TO BEGIN? TANGLED STRUCTURES FORMING HAVE I COME UNSTUCK IN TIME? MANIFEST A SOUL’S DEFENCE NOWHERE TO HIDE JUST TO FEND WITH THE GHOSTS I DREW TO ME FORGOTTEN VOICES THROUGH THE SCREEN TRIP THE WIRE ALARM BELLS RING ALL THAT WAS, IN DISARRAY AMASS THE ENERGY TO SPEAK FORM THE THOUGHTS THAT I WILL THINK WHAT I WANT AND WHAT I FEEL WHY COMPLY? WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? WAS THERE A MADNESS TO THE GREATER PLAN THAT HAD NO PART FOR ME FACES CLOSER TO THE GLASS THROUGH THE DOOR, A LIFE THAT PASSED BREAKS INTO THE DARKENED AIR A RAGE OF SOUNDS THAT CUT TOO DEEP THERE AGAIN WITHIN MY REACH COMPELLING EVERY MOVE I MAKE FREE OF DOUBT ANOTHER STEP COUNT TO THREE AND YOU’LL FORGET THAT YOU WERE EVER HERE PASSIONS RISE! AND A VOICE CRIES OUT INSIDE WHEN WHAT I KNOW AND LOVE IS GONE WHERE SHOULD I GO? WHERE SHOULD I RUN? THE FLAG I CARRIED, I HELD HIGH OVER EARTH AND UNDER SKY WHEN WHAT I KNOW AND LOVE IS GONE WHERE SHOULD I GO? WHERE SHOULD I RUN? AGAIN THE VOICE, IT CRIES ALOUD OF SACRIFICE AND LOVE AVOWED WHEN THE LAND I LOVED IS GONE WHERE SHOULD I GO? WHERE SHOULD I RUN? THE FLAG I CARRIED, I HELD HIGH OVER EARTH AND UNDER SKY WHEN WHAT I KNOW AND LOVE IS GONE WHERE SHOULD I GO? WHERE SHOULD I RUN?
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Sunflare 05:33
WHEN YOU HAVE GOLD, THEY’LL TRY TO TEAR IT FROM YOUR HANDS WHEN YOU MAKE LIFE, THEY’LL TAKE AND GRIND IT INTO SAND ARMED AND PREPARED FOR WHAT BEFALLS YOU THE GREATEST GIFT THAT YOU POSESS IS ALL THAT WE GAVE YOU ALL OUR HOPES AND ALL OUR LOVE OUR GREATEST WISHES GO WITH YOU MAY YOU FIND THE PLACE THAT YOU WERE MEANT TO FIND HOLD ON TO YOUR TRUTH TO SERVE YOU WELL WORDS CONCEAL, THEY ARE DECEPTION TRUST THE SIGNS, NOT EMPTY PROMISES AT DUSK, SET OUT TO UNKNOWN LANDS, FAR BEYOND YOUR BORDERS INTO THE HEART, THE MADDENED DEPTHS, UNTIL THE FIRST RAYS BLIND YOU HOLD OUR DREAMS, OUR TOIL AND OUR CREATION NEVER WANT AND NEVER NEED, NOR THIRST NOR HUNGER YOU’VE WON THE RIGHT, HAVE YOU NOT, TO GUIDE AND SHAPE WHAT IS TO FOLLOW LEAVE IMPRESSIONS FOR GENERATIONS YET TO BE KNOW WHAT YOU ARE, WHAT YOU ARE NOT AND IF YOU LEAVE THIS PLACE TOMORROW KNOW YOU HAVE LIVED A LIFE CONTENT AND SATISFIED
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Under Sky 02:56

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As Ronan describes the album : "Electric Sun resonates deeply with me. There have been revelations and epiphanies in its making. There are sides to it where I've expressed things in ways I hadn't until now. It's allowed me to explore and reach new levels in the kind of music I make. I said on stage a few times that the next one would be darker. It was more a feeling than a conscious choice. Now, I don't mean darker in an 'alone in a concrete cellar at 2am on a Saturday' or 'my hunchback brother fell down a well and now I'm sad' kind of way. You don't plan creativity but you can curate and guide it. You are a vessel for it and, if you're like me, you let it do its thing. It's not the tools themselves but what they enable you to do. I find this album to be more emotive than usual, at times reaching some intensity. A lot was waiting to come out, I guess. I think you'll understand what I mean once you've heard it. From the title track 'Electric Sun' to songs like 'Prophet', 'Run', 'Sunflare' and 'At Horizon's end', there's a cinematic-size scale to what I've made here. If you want, the album will make you dance, or ask you to think or make you smile and, at times, it might well put dust in your eye. I find it hard to grasp what I've achieved on this and I can't wait for you to hear it."

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released April 28, 2023

ALL TRACKS WRITTEN AND COMPOSED BY RONAN HARRIS
PRODUCED BY RONAN HARRIS AT ANACHRON STUDIOS, HAMBURG
MIXED BY BENJAMIN LORENZ + RONAN HARRIS
ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION ON 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 - ANDRÉ WINTER
VOCAL TRACKING ASST - BENJAMIN MUNDIGLER
RECORDED AT ANACHRON, HAMBURG
MASTERED BY BENJAMIN LORENZ AT CHAMELEON STUDIOS, HAMBURG

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VNV Nation Hamburg, Germany

VNV Nation is a European based alternative electronic project led by Ronan Harris.

The music blends thought provoking lyrics with melodic dance beats, indie-electronic anthems, haunting ballads and post-classical pieces.

Live shows are legendary for the energy and positive emotion.

The last 3 albums charted top 10 in Germany, as well as top 5 Billboard Chart positions in the US.
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