Pink Turns Blue - Meta

Recorded on the heels of their debut album, If Two World Kiss and informed by the band’s oscillating live synergy and bolstered by a boon of new equipment and texture, Pink Turns Blue’s sophomore 1988 album Meta was a conceptual leap predicated by the study of sound and exploration of its edges. With the same fervour that Joy Division mined deeper, darker, and less linear on Closer, Meta is a cohesive meditation on atmosphere and how every note and passage can traverse space individually, as part of a larger narrative. Singles “Touch the Sky” and “Your Master Is Calling” are the albums cornerstones; airy, steady, and driving tracks with a depth of melody and orchestration that sparked a shimmering new example of dark pop. The instrumental balance throughout the album creates a strobe light journey later echoed throughout gothic compatriots exploring minor keys and nocturnal themes. Recorded by Jané Krizaj known for producing most of Laibach’s material, the Meta sessions took place in a basement studio located below a stadium. Then a part of Yugoslavia, the studio was located in now Slovenia and was affordable, but lacked many modern recording amenities, forcing the band to smuggle valuable equipment in exchange for recording time. Riding the excitement, cultural experience, and friendship of Laibach, born on the road and further fostered throughout the vibrant Ljubljana music scene and Croatian coast, Meta’s feel is a musical manifestation of beautiful confusion of exploring the new and unfamiliar.

This is the 1988 original German CD release with a bonus track ripped to sky touching MP3 @ 320kbps

Pink Turns Blue; Meta

1.      The First

2.      The Curse

3.      Your Master Is Calling

4.      Darkness

5.      Cult Of The Beautiful

6.      Celebration’s Day

7.      Touch The Sky

8.      Marcella

9.      Faces Of The Gone

10.   The Church Of Choice