On this episode of We Have a Technical, Bruce and Alex run a commentary on one of their mutual favourite 90s EBM albums, the majestic electropop journey that is Covenant’s “Europa”. These album commentaries are a bit of a rare bird, so come on a ride that goes from millenial clubs to the edge of history, and, yes, to the water and the stone. Rate and subscribe on iTunes and Stitcher, download directly or stream from the widget below!
We Have a Technical #65: Europa Europa
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Dang, I just listened to this album the other day and was surprised to remember just how good it is. Timely!
Excellent album, although I have to say “Final Man” has always stood out as a weak point for me. At least the single gave us “Control” which is a pretty cool B-Side.
Covenant’s lyrics stand as some of the best in the entire broader industrial/post industrial spectrum in my opinion. I’ve never delved too deeply into this album but I’ve spent hours mulling over Sequencer (which is probably my favorite album of theirs). Many, many songs with themes of inhuman, uncontrollable forces working around us, unbeholden to us, “Storm” and “Flux” being probably the most obvious examples, and “Slow Motion” being the most harrowing.
Lovely hearing your guys’ thoughts on the record, especially since this is the first full album commentary you guys have done where I’ve actually heard the whole album before. This and the Bunkertor 7 commentary are some of my favorite podcasts from you guys. Looking forward to the Seeming interview!
Great episode. I could easily listen for hours to you guys digging into these albums. The critique episodes are some of my favorite.
Love the album commentaries! You should consider making them a more regular occurrence.
Great listen, guys!
Thank you for taking the time and effort to do this thing. It’s really interesting to hear it through your ears and minds, so to speak. Sometimes you get close to the actual thoughts we had but more often I’m like “what, how do they get THAT idea?”. But that’s a wonderful thing, really. I always thought that music (and all art) happens in the listening experience, not in the process of creating it.
I’m looking forward to doing that interview about “Europa” because you’re right, it really was a game changing album for us. 🙂
Cheers and thanks from Sweden!
/Joakim Montelius
okay I’m listening to this like six years late but this is a great commentary and what you say at the start about this being effectively Kraftwerkian (is that a word) and about that kind of vision of Europe that runs through this album (and tbh several others of theirs), and that all speaks to me so much and is why I adore this album just so much. It’s legit in my top ten albums of all time, and I really can’t fault anything about it