“Will microClocks become as good as Depeche Mode?“ The oh-so independent and impartial “Bild”, Germany’s most famous tabloid paper, entitled an article about microClocks with these words some time ago. Since then, the yellow press has been obsessing about this question more than the band itself. The comparison with the celebrities from Basildon falls short... but still ennobles the band from the Ruhr area (Germany)! Stylistically, microClocks is rooted in the rock and pop music of the 80s, but likes to snack from the tree of electronica and industrial. Hence, microClocks is far from being a plagiarism of well-known artists. Powerful guitars, complex arrangements, stomping rhythms and finest synthesizer sounds – with this mixture the last single ‚Is Anybody Out There?‘ jumped to number 8 of the ‚German Alternative Charts‘, followed by news coverage in nearly all scene magazines and daily papers. Big and small festival and club shows have been performed – from the‚M’era Luna‘ festival in 2014 with headliners like Within Temptation and Marilyn Manson to a tour throughout Germany presented by ‚Sennheiser‘ and ‚intro‘ magazine. Towards the end of 2016 microClocks released the album ‚Soon Before Sundown‘. For its realisation well-known producers, like José Alvarez-Brill (Unheilig, De/Vision) and Olaf Wollschläger (Mesh, And One), provide assistance. The content of the new songs focuses on all kinds of pressing social issues – loss of values, wrong ideals, waste of privacy.