Alphaville - Salvation -deluxe Remaster 2023- -... 95%

Alphaville once sang about wanting to be "Forever Young." With Salvation , they proved they could age with grace, intelligence, and impeccable synthesizer tone. This remaster ensures that grace will last forever.

The low-end has been given a significant lift. Tracks like “Wishful Thinking” and “The Impossible Dream” now possess a weight and warmth that was previously buried beneath 90s-era mixing conservatism. Marian Gold’s ethereal voice—always the band’s secret weapon—sits perfectly in the center of the soundstage, no longer fighting with compressed synthesizers. Alphaville - Salvation -Deluxe Remaster 2023- -...

The 2023 Deluxe Edition shines a light on this thematic richness. Unlike their earlier work, which dealt with nuclear fear ("Forever Young") or cosmic isolation ("Big in Japan"), Salvation asks: What happens after the fall? Alphaville once sang about wanting to be "Forever Young