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«The Ghost And The Machine» (TGATM) as the voice of the burgeoning Dark Academia scene. Andreas Lechner, TGATM-mastermind, establishes «Dark Academia Pop» with his poetic lyrics, unique resonator guitar style and artistically inspiring content. After the two single releases and double Puls 4 Austria music tips "Way To Blue" (February 2021) and "20 Miles High" (June 2021), Andreas Lechner's new albums "Alice In Contraland, Part I & II" are in the starting blocks (Fullmax Recordings). This marks the beginning of a new, exciting era for TGATM as a solo project with a new vision and stylistic direction: "Dark Academia Pop". "For me, it feels like arriving in the right genre after a long creative and laborious process," says Lechner. The Dark Academia scene provides the space for linking the introverted but soulful intellectuals who, despite their love of heavy books, ancient art and architecture, want to fit in and participate in today's colorful and interconnected world. A romantic recollection of profound perception and, despite a fast-moving world, a desire for long-term thought processes and insights. A connection that is inherent in Vienna as an often romanticized but modern cultural capital in its inhabitants and also in TGATM. "Alice in Contraland, Part I & Part II" are meant to function as two different ways of looking at themes such as loneliness, a romantic and artistic view on life, high expectations, the wrong love and the longing for something unique.