{"id":2012955,"date":"2026-06-26T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T07:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2012955"},"modified":"2026-06-26T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T07:19:00","slug":"only-bad-vibes-brutalismus-3000-on-making-their-toxic-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2012955","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Only bad vibes\u2019: Brutalismus 3000 on making their \u2018toxic\u2019 new album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1200\/0-0-3000-2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/8\/1448173.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article class=\"main-article standard \">\n<div class=\"article-main-content article-wrapper has-media-but-its-an-image\" data-status=\"loaded\" data-primary-article=\"true\" data-url=\"\/music\/article\/70532\/1\/only-bad-vibes-brutalismus-3000-toxic-album-harmony-underworld-anya-taylor-joy\" data-article-id=\"70532\">\n<header class=\"article-header has-landscape-image no-media\">\n<div class=\"wrapper dg-max-width\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<figure class=\"main-img has-figcaption\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.33\" data-template=\"Standard Article\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brutalismus 3000, Harmony\" class=\"img\" height=\"2250\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1400\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/8\/1448173.jpg\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"inner\"><span class=\"credit\">Photography Tom Funk<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"inner\"><time datetime=\"2026-06-26T10:19:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"26 June 2026\"><span class=\"month\">June<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"26\">26,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"titles\">\n<div class=\"tags\">\n<div class=\"sections\"><a class=\"category vertical - music\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\">Music<\/a><br \/>\n\/<br \/>\n<a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/feature\">Feature<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"standard-tag-container\"><a class=\"standard-category\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\">Music<\/a> \/<br \/>\n<a class=\"standard-series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/feature\">Feature<\/a><\/div>\n<h1 class=\"title\"><span>\u2018Only bad vibes\u2019: Brutalismus 3000 on making their \u2018toxic\u2019 <span class=\"nowrap\">new album<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"standfirst\">\n<h2>The electronic duo\u2019s latest record, Harmony, yanks off the rose-tinted glasses and crushes <span class=\"nowrap\">them underfoot<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-06-26T10:19:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"26 June 2026\"><span class=\"month\">June<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"26\">26,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-06-26T10:19:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"26 June 2026\"><span class=\"month\">June<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"26\">26,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/p>\n<div class=\"providers\">\n<div class=\"contributors\"><span class=\"contributor\" data-contributor-role=\"Text\"><span class=\"contributor-role\">Text<\/span><a class=\"contributor-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/user\/ThomWaite\"><br \/>\nThom Waite<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article-body-container\">\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"dazed-gallery has-5-images single-row\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"info\"><span class=\"heading\">Brutalismus 3000, Harmony<\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumbs\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/gallery\/37175\/0\/brutalismus-3000-harmony\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brutalismus 3000, Harmony\" class=\"img\" height=\"1999\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-216-2999-1999\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/8\/1448174.jpg\" width=\"2999\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/gallery\/37175\/1\/brutalismus-3000-harmony\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brutalismus 3000, Harmony\" class=\"img\" height=\"1999\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-222-2999-1999\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/8\/1448172.jpg\" width=\"2999\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/gallery\/37175\/2\/brutalismus-3000-harmony\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brutalismus 3000, Harmony\" class=\"img\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-3000-2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/8\/1448173.jpg\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/gallery\/37175\/3\/brutalismus-3000-harmony\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brutalismus 3000, Harmony\" class=\"img\" height=\"1998\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-141-2998-1998\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/8\/1448175.jpg\" width=\"2998\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/gallery\/37175\/4\/brutalismus-3000-harmony\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brutalismus 3000, Harmony\" class=\"img\" height=\"1999\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-251-2999-1999\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/8\/1448176.jpg\" width=\"2999\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-footer\">Gallery \/ 5 images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/brutalismus3000\/?hl=en\">Brutalismus 3000<\/a>\u2019s latest album, <\/span><em><span>Harmony<\/span><\/em><span>, is the Berlin-based duo\u2019s most ambitious work to date, by their own reckoning. \u201cIt\u2019s the first one where we found ourselves truly as a band,\u201d says Theo Zeitner. \u201cThe language we\u2019re speaking now is way closer to what we want to be. And the amount of work that went into this record was maybe a hundred times the amount we put into the last one.\u201d The \u201clast one\u201d being 2023\u2019s <\/span><em><span>Ultrakunst<\/span><\/em><span>, which arrived out of pandemic lockdowns in a storm of kick drums, blown-out vocals, snarling synths, and sweaty clubnights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>Ultrakunst <\/span><\/em><span>was technically the electronic act\u2019s debut album, produced five years after the pair met on Tinder and started making music together. But now, <\/span><em><span>Harmony <\/span><\/em><span>feels like another debut, Zeitner adds \u2013 at least, the first showcase of a different way of working, with collaborators including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/100-gecs\">100 gecs<\/a>\u2019 Dylan Brady and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/boys-noize\">Boys Noize<\/a> on production, plus vocals from Underworld and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/anya-taylor-joy\">Anya Taylor-Joy<\/a>. And, as with any \u201cdebut\u201d, the anxiety and excitement is running high. \u201cWe waited almost two years to release this,\u201d says Zeitner. \u201cNow it\u2019s like, what the fuck? Give us some more time. We need to process some stuff.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The anxiety has been tempered, at least, by live listening parties across the world these last few months. \u201cThe first listening party was in Japan,\u201d says Victoria Vassiliki Daldas. \u201cAnd people went completely nuts. It took all our fears away.\u201d The Tokyo show was followed by appearances in China \u2013 <\/span><span>\u201cwe were really surprised that we have so many fans there, and it was actually very emotional for me, because it\u2019s crazy to think that people listen to our music so far away from home,\u201d says Daldas \u2013 and New York, where the sweltering listening party was shut down by the NYPD.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"0nFT_wK9UQ0\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0nFT_wK9UQ0\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>\u201cNew York is one of our favorite cities to play, because they always go pretty hard,\u201d adds Zeitner. \u201cBut everything was against us that night. The fucking heat, no AC, then cops came, and then it started to rain immediately as everyone got outside. I think God didn\u2019t want us to play in New York that night.\u201d That didn\u2019t stop them closing out the set with their 2020 track \u201cNo Sex With Cops\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On <\/span><em><span>Harmony<\/span><\/em><span>, the pair is as willing as ever to confront dark themes and provoke political discourse. Both are woven in among moments of playfulness and poetry, lifted from their notebooks and\/or Notes app, typed in transit or written together during \u201cwild, stream-of-consciousness\u201d sessions around the kitchen table. The title, says Zeitner, was a kind of ironic starting point: \u201cWe wanted to strive against toxic positivity. We wanted to make this really toxic record called <\/span><em><span>Harmony<\/span><\/em><span>, which is only bad vibes and just really fucks with you. Just to make the world a little bit worse.\u201d But, as the world outside the album <\/span><em><span>did <\/span><\/em><span>get worse, something strange happened to the record itself. \u201cWe started out really aggressive and everything,\u201d he explains. \u201cBut in the making of the record it became so much lighter.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"74a109e9-2296-452a-9739-b47500a0e185\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/8\/1448175.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.33\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brutalismus 3000, Harmony\" class=\"img\" height=\"2250\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/8\/1448175.jpg\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"caption\">Brutalismus 3000, Harmony<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo Tom Funk<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>This shift was partly a result of the collaborations: B3K linked up with Underworld for the hypnotic track \u201cFriends at the Pigshed\u201d, titled in homage to the legendary musician\u2019s converted studio space, while Anya Taylor-Joy narrated \u201cMorning is For the Happy\u201d after a weekend with the duo at Berghain<\/span><span>. \u201cThere was a lot of hope and fun and togetherness in there,\u201d they add. \u201cThere is a harmony in the record that we didn\u2019t plan on. Now, after two years, it\u2019s got a totally different meaning for us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The duo themselves have been more involved in every part of the album process, as well, from creating the cover art with about 40 litres of pig\u2019s blood (\u201cWe didn\u2019t expect it to be such a mess\u201d) to shaping a trilogy of videos. The first video, for the riotous opener \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xrZLtV2XxMs\">I Bring My Gun to the Function<\/a>\u201d, features scenes from a rehearsal for the second video, \u201cGore Louvre\u201d, which depicts an anarchic home invasion captured by night vision cameras. The aesthetic conjures up a whole range of associations, from horror films, to drone strikes, to viral clips from Ring doorbells. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe were really inspired by pictures of the raid on Gaddafi\u2019s mansion,\u201d says Zeitner, \u201cbut then we made it way softer in tone, and more playful.\u201d The final video in the trilogy, \u201cTesto Skin Part 1\u201d, revisits the same space in the form of a traditional house viewing (albeit with eerie, disassociated bodies and a high-powered rifle in the mix).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"adLaV_OQIpk\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/adLaV_OQIpk\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Much of <\/span><em><span>Harmony<\/span><\/em><span> was produced in North America, and the whole record is \u201cvery North American\u201d in its themes, Zeitner says (in fact, throughout this interview, the duo\u2019s background is a large painting of Wesley Snipes in <\/span><em><span>Blade<\/span><\/em><span>, with a shotgun over his shoulder and a rippling US flag in the foreground). These themes naturally include the spectre of a rising technoauthoritarian class, and all the anger and violence that comes along with it. \u201cIt\u2019s impossible not to, when you make art,\u201d Daldas says. \u201cIt\u2019s in our minds all day, how fucking horrible everything is right now, so even if you talk about yourself, if you make a love song, it\u2019s kind of in there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After all, the glimmer of hope that runs through an album like <\/span><em><span>Harmony <\/span><\/em><span>shouldn\u2019t be mistaken for actual optimism about where the world is heading. \u201cFor most people, the last two years have managed to get even shittier than before,\u201d Zeitner concludes. \u201cThe worldview has gotten even darker over time.\u201d And, toxic or not, Brutalismus 3000 have no problem telling it as it is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>Harmony is out now<\/span><\/em><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"newsletter-inline-last\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-small\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<h1 class=\"newsletter-title\">Escape the algorithm! 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And the amount of work that went into this record was maybe a hundred times the amount we put into the last one.\u201d The \u201clast one\u201d being 2023\u2019s <\/span><em><span>Ultrakunst<\/span><\/em><span>, which arrived out of pandemic lockdowns in a storm of kick drums, blown-out vocals, snarling synths, and sweaty clubnights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>Ultrakunst <\/span><\/em><span>was technically the electronic act\u2019s debut album, produced five years after the pair met on Tinder and started making music together. But now, <\/span><em><span>Harmony <\/span><\/em><span>feels like another debut, Zeitner adds \u2013 at least, the first showcase of a different way of working, with collaborators including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/100-gecs\">100 gecs<\/a>\u2019 Dylan Brady and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/boys-noize\">Boys Noize<\/a> on production, plus vocals from Underworld and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/anya-taylor-joy\">Anya Taylor-Joy<\/a>. And, as with any \u201cdebut\u201d, the anxiety and excitement is running high. \u201cWe waited almost two years to release this,\u201d says Zeitner. \u201cNow it\u2019s like, what the fuck? Give us some more time. We need to process some stuff.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The anxiety has been tempered, at least, by live listening parties across the world these last few months. \u201cThe first listening party was in Japan,\u201d says Victoria Vassiliki Daldas. \u201cAnd people went completely nuts. It took all our fears away.\u201d The Tokyo show was followed by appearances in China \u2013 <\/span><span>\u201cwe were really surprised that we have so many fans there, and it was actually very emotional for me, because it\u2019s crazy to think that people listen to our music so far away from home,\u201d says Daldas \u2013 and New York, where the sweltering listening party was shut down by the NYPD.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"0nFT_wK9UQ0\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0nFT_wK9UQ0\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>\u201cNew York is one of our favorite cities to play, because they always go pretty hard,\u201d adds Zeitner. \u201cBut everything was against us that night. The fucking heat, no AC, then cops came, and then it started to rain immediately as everyone got outside. I think God didn\u2019t want us to play in New York that night.\u201d That didn\u2019t stop them closing out the set with their 2020 track \u201cNo Sex With Cops\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On <\/span><em><span>Harmony<\/span><\/em><span>, the pair is as willing as ever to confront dark themes and provoke political discourse. Both are woven in among moments of playfulness and poetry, lifted from their notebooks and\/or Notes app, typed in transit or written together during \u201cwild, stream-of-consciousness\u201d sessions around the kitchen table. The title, says Zeitner, was a kind of ironic starting point: \u201cWe wanted to strive against toxic positivity. We wanted to make this really toxic record called <\/span><em><span>Harmony<\/span><\/em><span>, which is only bad vibes and just really fucks with you. Just to make the world a little bit worse.\u201d But, as the world outside the album <\/span><em><span>did <\/span><\/em><span>get worse, something strange happened to the record itself. \u201cWe started out really aggressive and everything,\u201d he explains. \u201cBut in the making of the record it became so much lighter.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"74a109e9-2296-452a-9739-b47500a0e185\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/8\/1448175.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.33\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brutalismus 3000, Harmony\" class=\"img\" height=\"2250\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/8\/1448175.jpg\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"caption\">Brutalismus 3000, Harmony<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo Tom Funk<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>This shift was partly a result of the collaborations: B3K linked up with Underworld for the hypnotic track \u201cFriends at the Pigshed\u201d, titled in homage to the legendary musician\u2019s converted studio space, while Anya Taylor-Joy narrated \u201cMorning is For the Happy\u201d after a weekend with the duo at Berghain<\/span><span>. \u201cThere was a lot of hope and fun and togetherness in there,\u201d they add. \u201cThere is a harmony in the record that we didn\u2019t plan on. Now, after two years, it\u2019s got a totally different meaning for us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The duo themselves have been more involved in every part of the album process, as well, from creating the cover art with about 40 litres of pig\u2019s blood (\u201cWe didn\u2019t expect it to be such a mess\u201d) to shaping a trilogy of videos. The first video, for the riotous opener \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xrZLtV2XxMs\">I Bring My Gun to the Function<\/a>\u201d, features scenes from a rehearsal for the second video, \u201cGore Louvre\u201d, which depicts an anarchic home invasion captured by night vision cameras. The aesthetic conjures up a whole range of associations, from horror films, to drone strikes, to viral clips from Ring doorbells. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe were really inspired by pictures of the raid on Gaddafi\u2019s mansion,\u201d says Zeitner, \u201cbut then we made it way softer in tone, and more playful.\u201d The final video in the trilogy, \u201cTesto Skin Part 1\u201d, revisits the same space in the form of a traditional house viewing (albeit with eerie, disassociated bodies and a high-powered rifle in the mix).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"adLaV_OQIpk\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/adLaV_OQIpk\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Much of <\/span><em><span>Harmony<\/span><\/em><span> was produced in North America, and the whole record is \u201cvery North American\u201d in its themes, Zeitner says (in fact, throughout this interview, the duo\u2019s background is a large painting of Wesley Snipes in <\/span><em><span>Blade<\/span><\/em><span>, with a shotgun over his shoulder and a rippling US flag in the foreground). These themes naturally include the spectre of a rising technoauthoritarian class, and all the anger and violence that comes along with it. \u201cIt\u2019s impossible not to, when you make art,\u201d Daldas says. \u201cIt\u2019s in our minds all day, how fucking horrible everything is right now, so even if you talk about yourself, if you make a love song, it\u2019s kind of in there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After all, the glimmer of hope that runs through an album like <\/span><em><span>Harmony <\/span><\/em><span>shouldn\u2019t be mistaken for actual optimism about where the world is heading. \u201cFor most people, the last two years have managed to get even shittier than before,\u201d Zeitner concludes. \u201cThe worldview has gotten even darker over time.\u201d And, toxic or not, Brutalismus 3000 have no problem telling it as it is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>Harmony is out now<\/span><\/em><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"newsletter-inline-last\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-small\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<h1 class=\"newsletter-title\">Escape the algorithm! 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