Escape With Romeo

The new Escape with Romeo album “Suspicious Bliss” is the result of a musical reinvention of the band who once described their own sound with “Post Punk meets modern Electronica”. Now the guitars stick out, a rock beat dominates, and the overall sound is very dense and packed with variation.
In terms of style, “Suspicious Bliss” is a mixture of shoegaze moments in songs like “Black Jaguar in a Police Car”, more “in your face” tracks like “Evil Renegade” and introvert ones like “You’ve Failed the Empathy Test”.
Since the reinvention and reformation of the band in 2022 they perform with two guitars, a fact that set the musical path for “Suspicious Bliss”: a wall of sound, a dense atmosphere and a strong dynamic from the first to the last note of the album.
After 35 years Escape with Romeo made an album that sticks out, even out of their own history. Songs like “Evil Renegade” or “My Robot Life” don’t serve as a retrospect but are rooted in the present. The protagonist of “Weight of the World” is comfortable in his capsule drifting a million miles away from earth, but still, he tries to contact ground station – never receiving an answer. Scenarios like this form the dark mood of this brand-new album.
“Suspicious Bliss” holds no nostalgia, it’s a gaze into today’s world: Humans are the enemies, it’s them you must fear, whereas bliss is everything that hides the truth, an artificial intelligence producing a world of spectacular fakes that can’t hide the ugly truth of a dying (human) breed.
Escape with Romeo and their mastermind, guitarist and singer Thomas Elbern created an album between indie-rock, postpunk and electronic that is close to their well-known live sound.

Escape with Romeo in a nutshell:
- Founded 1988 by Thomas Elbern, former guitarrist ofPink Turns Blue in Cologne, Germany
- First album from 1989 contains their famous single “Somebody”
- twelve studio albums, a couple of live-recordings and compilations and a DVD were published
- Massive fanbase in Spain, where they first played in the early 90ties