Iris Paralysis speaks to a condition when the pupil fails to respond to external stimulation.  And while it may at times feel like we are similarly paralysed in the face of a world slowly eating itself, Dormant Visions will soon stir you from your horrified stupor.

Iris Paralysis are an English / German synth duo, featuring Marco Palumbo of Zuletzt on vocals and Tobo Schazmann marshalling the electronics.  Dormant Visions, their third full-length, playfully weaves together cold wave and post-punk influences into a bleakly dystopian, yet infectiously danceable soundscape.

The darkly pulsing synths, underpinned by coldly clinical percussion, tease out swells of recurring melancholic melody, the skittering electronic effects fuelling a growing sense of unease across the seven tracks.  Meanwhile, the enigmatically detached, multi-layered vocals deploy the power of repetition to potent effect as they evoke a society being relentlessly drawn into the predatory thralls of technocracy and surveillance capitalism.

From the futuristic slow burn of Non-Registering Body to the insidiously catchy Trapped Within A Dreamscape by way of the pulsating austerity of Paraffin Sky, Iris Paralysis inexorably lure you into their enticingly ambiguous embrace.