The self titled debut album is majorly influenced by Dismal Plight’s heroes from the 80s. You can hear the obvious winks to bands such as Joy Division, The Cure, New Order and Sad Lovers And Giants as well as to Clan of Xymox and early Felt. With synths and drum machines from that period Dismal Plights attempts to create an authentic sound adapted for the 21st century.

I Want To Take You There

New Dawn (remix)

Talk About This

You Don't Have Time · God in a Black Suit

℗ 2021 God in a Black Suit

You Don't Have Time

Book Of The Damned

Mirror Mask

Citizen UK - Dining on Expenses (1982 - England)

unlock your secrets (download @ bandcamp)

Carlos Perón - Impersonator

2LP Vinyl: b.link/impersonatorlp
Special edition on piss yellow vinyl. Limited to 150 copies with postcard.
Standard edition on black vinyl. Limited to 350 copies with postcard.

2CD: b.link/impersonatorcd
Limited edition of 500 copies on double CD with vinyl record gatefold sleeve replica and printed inner sleeves.

Digital: b.link/impersonatordigital

40th anniversary edition of the debut album by the multi-talented musician Carlos Perón “Impersonator” was originally released in 1981 when he was still a member of Yello. This first solo work represents a desire to conduct daring electronic experiments, to achieve stylistic variety and musical intensity while at the same time it is an example of Mr. Perón’s bizarre sense of humour. 

Since the beginning of his career he pushed experimentation beyond limits with noise atmospheres, loops and complex textures which he has long used since before the introduction of sampling technology. With the arrival of sound sampling, he was among the first to experiment with equipment such as the Fairlight, Emulator and Mirage. During his time with Yello, Carlos may well have been one of the world's first sampling masters.

This re-issue of “Impersonator" includes all original tracks with some bonus including the whole Frigorex EP from 1984 and six previously unreleased cuts recorded between 1982 and 1983.

Impersonator

Carlos Perón - Raid At Fat Bennies

Passing By

Exit Wound Diagram (Colin)
lyrics by Colin & ChatGPT
image & music by Suno AI

Exit Wound Diagram (Colin)

System breathes in binary ash
A pulse traced backward through
glass-on-glass
Click-click friction beneath the floor
Humming like wires that ask for more

Glossed and silent, lips erase
Patterns form where hands replace
The codes were carved in borrowed sand
The words were wrong but still they stand

Exit wound diagram
Framed in polite collapse
Speak in pre-approved collapse
Signs on paper, ticks in gaps

Feedback smells of kitchen steel
Spilling truths we failed to feel
A zero blinks, it sheds its skin
And loops the error back again

Fractured glass in tactical lines
Ink from the mouth of machines that divine
A tremor, a smudge, a sanctioned mistake
The bones rearranged for the future’s sake

Exit wound diagram
Drawn in machine regret
Shake the dust from each command
Nothing’s gone, it just resets

What we made — we can’t unmake
What we break — we can’t forsake
In the hum: a threat, a prayer
Exit wound, but no one’s there


Exit Wound Diagram (Colin)

Dismal Plight is the solo project of Gustav Tranback of Salt Lake Alley. Dismal Plight is Gustav’s way to channel his love for everything Post-Punk, New Wave, Goth and Synth.