I understand. Yes, PTF is from a time of my life when I had a lot of anger, controlled anger. Not being aggressive, like for making a punk album, but still, I was writing music that was in a style of the scene. That album was full of variety, I wanted it to be accessible, not in a commercial sense, but that it could reach different people, who could hear it and get a message from it without having to concentrate on the music. Yet, the music was still strong enough.
Now, with “Futureperfect” I wanted to go off and do a lot of different types of electronic music. There are still elements on it, like “Fearless” or “Epicentre” who can relate to the old era of PTF.I think that new album is lot deeper, lot more textured than the previous, it sounds like more time went into it, for me anyway. There is a very dark atmosphere, it’s not a very positive album.

Although, in lyrics of every song there is a… sense of progress, of positive. And I’ve found that in your lyrics you fight for life, although you are depressed, you say to the one who cares:” I’m OK, I’ll be fine!”

You’re the first interviewer who’s actually said this to me. So, congratulations! That’s so nice to hear! There’s always been a sense of hope in everything! Even in the most depressing song. Many of my fans have said that they always find that hope in the end of my songs, which is what I wanted. There is always, no matter how bad is the situation, a way out.

So, there is Hope?

Oh, there’s always hope! If there isn’t hope, you might as well just stop. Because, what’s the point in existing? Hope is what keeps dreams alive, what keeps our ambitions alive, what keeps us. Hope is the fact that you can live every day, and wait every day for something great to happen in your life, or that you’re going to go somewhere, move somewhere. It’s what motivates you, gets you going; because, you can’t just wait for everything to be handed to you, that’ll never happen. But if you go and do something about it, if you set yourself up for your dream, you can achieve anything.
I always say that even in darkest situations “clouds have a silver lining”, meaning that the sun will eventually come out. And we have a choice to control our situation, to better ourselves, to make our future in a better place, if we put our minds to it. Each of us personally, or society as a whole. “Futureperfect” is about that. I wanted the album to be gray, neutral, no black and white, no technicolor, because that’s how I look at the world of today. It has become this very depressed place. It is not the most fantastic world that we could have created.
A hundred years ago, there was a drive to make a fantastic world - creative brave new world for us. The youth were responsible for all the ideas, because there was a drive or an enthusiasm. They have come up with futurism, modernism, and all these different things in architecture, music, philosophy – they had an whole idea of the world we were going to live in.

Do we have it?

Yes, that’s the point! The album is about:” Where’s the vision? Where’s the drive?” And the worst part of this is that youth all over the world stick their heads in the sand, they don’t really care. Especially in Western society, they don’t really care about the world in 40 years, they’re more interested in PVC they’re wearing and in “Am I listening to the right band?”. They can have the fashion; they can have the fashion all they want, but those are the people who will inherit the world in 40 years, and I am tired of the nihilism in this scene, the “World is going to be crap anyway, so I don’t care”. I am tired of that mentality ‘cause that is just wrong.
There’s many people who have come up and thanked us for singing about positive things. Not like:“Hey, everything is gonna be happy!” but singing in a realistic way.

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