In our society clocks are ticking faster and
faster. Insecurity and fear pave ways for manipulation and control.
Arbitrariness and exchangeability step into orientation and traditional values.
Within this environment of radical change and constant restlessness people
resemble a bunch of autumn leaves, randomized by the wind of change, building
new structures with every blast, while being at the mercy of their own
powerlessness.
On their album “opinions are on sale“microClocks adopts that restless change, that incessant ticking, which
often feels cold, mechanical and industrial, creating an own artistic universe
– sometimes apocalyptical and brute, sometimes spherical and dark.
Electronic and impellent rhythms build the core of the modern and nevertheless
profound electronic rock of the band from North Rhine-Westfalia, Germany.
Within them the pulse of our world – a rapidly alternating world, where
measures of values degenerate into general tendencies and the necessity of
manipulation and heteronomy is established with the help of anxiousness and
fear – is beating.
Thereby all this seems to become reality, which would
have been come across like a scraggy science fiction movie some years ago.
“Is the total loss of private sphere unavoidable? Do we have to buy
supposed security by putting every single person under general
suspician?“ microClocks is challenging clearly. “And can we be
regarded as paranoid or even suspicious, if we are not willing to accept all
this without reservation?“
Already in the course of their debut-EP
the band received prizes as well as fundings by the land of North
Rhine-Westfalia and different radio and TV stations, like 1Live, WDR, SWR, RBB
or Deutsche Welle gave attention to the sound of microClocks. For their first,
at that time under their own auspices distributed album „stars from
diffuse matter“ and for the video of the same title the musicians reap
awards at the „German Rock & Pop Prize“ in the categories
“Best Album (anglophone)“ and “Best Video“.
With
“opinions are on sale“ they are now appealing to the broad public
for the first time, beginning with their first single named „is anybody
out there?“ at the end of october. A question that sounds banal at
first sight, but which is essential for philosophical debates on existence
beyond perception since generations nevertheless. What remains, when you
subtract yourself from the big equation?“ Everyone of us asked oneselve
such abstract questions before“ says the band, referring to further
sociopolitical themes of their album – to faked ideals, instable
identities or social inequities.
Within the work on the new album
producer Massimo Nocito provides assistance again, creating a sound, which is
as crystal clear and precisely as the artistic contents of microClocks:
“In times of external determination, manipulation and decline
of traditional values clocks are ticking fast and remorseless – time is
really running out!”
Thereby all this seems to become reality, which would
have been come across like a scraggy science fiction movie some years ago.
“Is the total loss of private sphere unavoidable? Do we have to buy
supposed security by putting every single person under general
suspician?“ microClocks is challenging clearly. “And can we be
regarded as paranoid or even suspicious, if we are not willing to accept all
this without reservation?“ 
