Fassade
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| Fassade | ||
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| Studio album by Lacrimosa | ||
| Released | 2001 | |
| Recorded | Impuls Musicproductions, Hamburg | |
| Genre | Gothic Rock | |
| Length | 52:55 | |
| Label | Hall of Sermon | |
| Producer(s) | Tilo Wolff | |
| Lacrimosa chronology | ||
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| Elodia (1999) |
Fassade (2001) |
Echos (2003) |
Fassade (English: Façade) is the seventh album by Swiss duo Lacrimosa.
Whereas the previous album Elodia centred on love, Fassade's theme is that of a lonely individual feeling overwhelmed by society, exemplified by the central song, Fassade, divided into three Sätze (movements), and the album's artwork.
The album's cover shows a crowd of men and women identically dressed in what can be assumed to be grey (the album's cover is in greyscale), emotionlessly watching three women wearing gothic lingerie parade down a catwalk. Every single individual in the audience has his or her head wired to the person next to them, implying that they are all part of a hivemind. The only person present other than the models and the audience is Lacrimosa's trademark clown, standing in a side door. The back of the album's cover shows that the back wall of the theatre has fallen away, revealing nothing but fog and the top of a skyscraper.
[edit] Track listing
English translations of the German titles are in (brackets).
- "Fassade - 1. Satz" (Façade - 1st Movement)
- "Der Morgen Danach" (The Morning After)
- "Senses"
- "Warum so tief?" (Why So Deep?)
- "Fassade - 2. Satz" (Façade - 2nd Movement)
- "Liebesspiel" (Loveplay)
- "Stumme Worte" (Silent Words)
- "Fassade - 3. Satz" (Façade - 3rd Movement)
