"Prior to beginning the studio sessions for Bedlam, Rodriguez-Lopez recorded Despair, a nihilistic and disturbing meditation on his experiences in and around Jerusalem culled from field recordings and studio experimentation. A nightmarish pastiche of drones, noise, feedback, and unrecognizable audio hallucinations, Rodriguez-Lopez has, appropriately, compared the experience of listening to the album as not unlike that of a "bad acid trip". Cryptic titles such as "Liebe Ist Kälter Als Der Tod" and "Angst Vor Der Angst" provide little clue for the non-German speaker of what the various compositions have in store, an intentional suggestion of the disorientation and anxiety housed within the record's grooves. Despair challenges the listener and will no doubt be devisive amongst Volta fans."

 

 

1 - In Einem Jahr Mit 13 Monden
2 - Liebe Ist Kälter Als Der Tod
3 - Satansbraten
4 - Angst Isst die Seele auf
5 - Martha
6 - Rio Das Mortes
7 - Warnung Vor Einer Heiligen Nutte
8 - Chinesisches Roulette
9 - Lola
10 - Angst Vor Der Angst