If there is one thing I am certain of, then it is that Fosel’s release The Difference Engine, is perhaps the gloomiest album of 2009 on Petcord, albeit a special quality of gloom:
Darkness combined with a cold and chilly atmosphere which provides inspiration for my phantasy and usually generates images somewhere between the faint green curtains of an aurora rising on the sky and the deep blue glow of Cherenkov radiation inside a nuclear reactor. This may had a significant impact on the cover art Marco and I were preparing for the release. Like our previous work, the cover comes along with a rather early nineties retro style, though the text alignment was partly inspired by covers that even go back several decades before that (hint: the late sixties ;-)).

Speaking of the music for a change, I feel the first impression of The Difference Engine may deceive. Granted, the lack of familiar parameters serving as orientation points is perhaps irritating at first glance. However the perception of micro-details comes with repeated listening and co-incides with a certain degree of addiction to recreating the imaginary scenery. Imagine this process as one’s eyes adjusting to the darkness after having been exposed to a bright light source and close your eyes. Each of the four songs provide a different quality of darkness, and they do not wear thin even after having been added to a playlist for weeks.