By skyforbes 
The Imposter brings the theatrics and creativity of early new wave as we journey to awaken ourselves in a mundane world.
I was recently turned on to the uniquely retro creativity of Black Dahlia. The London-based performance artist and experimental musician has rediscovered the abstraction and creativity of the 1980s new wave movement and utilized it to generate strikingly nostalgic yet fresh narrative material.
Her debut album, The Imposter, seeks to take this sound and weave a story about a male character pulled from Paradise by a mysterious light into a bizarre limbo realm. The colorful yet brash mixture of vintage synth sounds initially drew me to this project, allowing me to see how all the elements come together to form Black Dahlia’s vision.
Our introduction to this narrative comes through the thunderous, glimmering sounds of “Paradise.” We’re thrust into this electronic web of neon lights and cosmopolitan wonder that should satiate our hunger. I adore how nicely all the synths emulate that new wave crunch and fantasism that made the genre so captivating in the ’80s. Black Dahila embodies this longing that calls our character to escape this oasis in search of something more fulfilling. The theatrics she evokes vocally, set in a…