REVIEW:

"We keep on wondering if a record can be more black than this one, where everything starts with the cover. The title "A beautiful sight" might be hopeful but still the sole colour that gets its entrance to here is the one from the death. It’s that sound you can hear in the music that’s being created by this new German duo that got fronted by Michael Kissing and Stefan Gonser.

From the very first track "Ocean on the screen" we hear the sound of those lovely staccato guitars which brings us back to a time where once Clan Of Xymox gave us the mighty “Medusa”. Even if some tracks like “Waiting” contain a sort of electronic cold-wave feel from modern bands like say, Echo West.

Still, it's the eighties that rule their sound and cynical readers might think that this is the kind of the band that keeps on repeating the echoes from the past.

Well, the influences are there and you don’t have to be some genius to discover that bands like The Sound, Bauhaus or even Death In June are part of their record collection, but they do something very original and contemporary with these sounds.

Not modern in the sense that this is just another bloody White Lies-copy. Thank God! No they aren’t, as Traffic A.M. are the kind of band who respect the sound from the past but gift this with very catchy songs that stick in the head.

So yes, with Traffic A.M. the cult label Plastic Frog Records has once again, a band under its wing that can make them proud.

Everyone who is in love with the authentic wavesound from the 80’s (we know every Peek-A-Boo reader is) should check out this band. Their name: Traffic A.M. !!!"

- Peek-A-Boo Magazine

Limited edition of 500 copies. Track 10 is not listed on the release.

TRACKLIST:

01. Ocean On The Screen 04:37
02. Confidence 04:05
03. Waiting 04:08
04. Dusk 04:19
05. Filthy Emptiness 04:13
06. Tomorrow Today 04:46
07. Traffic A.M. 03:49
08. Filthy Emptiness Remix 06:54
09. Tomorrow Today Remix 06:24