Fassade

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Fassade
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
Elodia (1999)	Fassade (2001)	Echos (2003)

Fassade (English: Façade) is the seventh album by Swiss duo Lacrimosa.

[edit] Themes

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).

1. "Fassade - 1. Satz" (Façade - 1st Movement)
2. "Der Morgen danach" (The Morning After)
3. "Senses"
4. "Warum so tief?" (Why So Deep?)
5. "Fassade - 2. Satz" (Façade - 2nd Movement)
6. "Liebesspiel" (Loveplay)
7. "Stumme Worte" (Silent Words)
8. "Fassade - 3. Satz" (Façade - 3rd Movement)