A Shrine to Failure - Undone

Undone is the debut album by Frankfurt-based duo A Shrine to Failure. The record unfolds over fourteen tracks (including intro and outro), exploring themes of loss, longing, urban emptiness, and emotional fragility through a lens of minimal, melodic, dystopian soundscapes that sit between pop, wave, darkwave and post-punk. Musically, it balances sharp, cold synth textures and programmed rhythms with moments of warmth, melody, and lyrical vulnerability — its songs more suggestive than explicit, inviting the listener to fill in the gaps of what is not said. Standouts like “Black Room Memory,” “Bleakware,” “Starving,” and The Clock That Never Turns exemplify this tension: haunting yet accessible, evocative of emotional ruin, but with a sense of beauty even in the collapse.