In the still young 21st century, mankind is facing an enormous odyssey. For no one can really foresee how the coming fundamental technological upheavals will affect the lives of individuals. The Earth, at any rate, is making us as a community increasingly aware of the ongoing plundering of its resources in the form of unending natural disasters. Surrounded by constant digital noise, the way we live together is also changing significantly. Although digitization practically enables us to exchange information on a permanent basis, paradoxically this development tends to lead to loneliness. Basically, everyone is sitting on their own in a small space capsule on a mission to unknown stars and, in the remoteness of space, is defenceless against their thoughts and questions about their own relevance. With their new album Spectra, Flares try to capture this theme of confrontation and base the structure of the album on the seven spectral classes, ergo the visual classification of stars. On this occasion, it seemed appropriate for the band to go back to their early days, when it was still necessary to decide in which direction to steer or whether the music should be based on any parameters at all. On Spectra, the band uses mostly their very first riffs and sketches, which were created before their first EP Levitation from 2008, and underlays the now for the first time formulated songs completely with vocals
