Chris Pohl keeps moving musically. With his solo project She Hates Emotions, he returns to rather minimalist and eighties-inspired music. The first full album Melancholic Maniac remained 'typically Chris', but then again it was not. It was more minimalistic, but still with the characteristic dark-pop undertone.
Now there is the first single that should be the start of the second album Chris Pohl is working on. He says: "Space & Time was the first song I wrote for the new She Hates Emotions album. It's about the never-ending search for that one soulmate... The person you want by your side. You know that person exists, but you haven't found them yet and you keep looking..."
So profound is the story, so danceable is the song that in my opinion leans more towards Blutengel than the really more minimalist orchestrated songs on the first full album. And yet, the eighties sound is pertinently present. Hard to put my finger on how. Apart from that, we are already curious as to what the second full album will bring. Because Pohl knows how to surprise us in one way or another with every project.