Aesthetic Perfection – Closer to Human
Today, on June 20, 2025, Aesthetic Perfection mastermind Daniel Graves unleashes his painstakingly reconstructed new version of the debut album “Close to Human” that was originally released two decades ago in 2005.
Depended Records is also releasing premium physical versions of the album!
Please find details and biographical information as well as all currently confirmed live dates including the support tour with TILL LINDEMANN.
Tracklist
1. Human
2. Belong
3. Beautiful
4. Surface
5. Fix
6. Overcast
7. Master
8. Architect
9. Sacrifice
10. Coward
AESTHETIC PERFECTION were founded by the American musician Daniel Graves in Hollywood, Los Angeles in the millennium year 2000. When their debut album “Close to Human” hit the electronic scene, it became an immediate success and laid the foundation for an exceptional career.
Sadly, the pitfalls of modern technology meant that the original files of “Close to Human” got lost in an apocalyptic hardware failure in 2006. Obviously, this loss remained a thorn in the side of the mastermind of AESTHETIC PERFECTION. In 2024, Daniel Graves decided it was time to recreate the album and gathered all the original hardware and samples to painstakingly rebuild the debut track by track.
Although the result closely resembles the debut, it was never a possibility and probably not even a good idea to just create a clone. Years of musical experience also factored in and therefore Graves dubbed the result “Closer to Human” to mark both the continuity as well as the difference in the title.
Following the debut, “AESTHETIC PERFECTION” went on to release eight acclaimed studio albums and also started to perform live, sharing stages with other scene favourites such as COVENANT, COMBICHRIST, and MESH to name but a few. Soon headliner shows followed that turned into sold out events in 2016.
The music of AESTHETIC PERFECTION has been described as aggrotech and future pop among other stylistic designations, while Daniel Graves started using the term industrial pop to describe his music in 2017.
In 2020, AESTHETIC PERFECTION supported the band of RAMMSTEIN frontman Til Lindemann, which was a massive success and will therefore be repeated by LINDEMANN in the autumn of 2025.
Before that happens, it is time to revisit the earliest days of AESTHETIC PERFECTION both live on stage in Europe and the USA and with the reconstructed debut album “Closer to Human” in the summer of 2025.
Band: Aesthetic Perfection
Album title: Closer to Human
Style: Industrial Pop
Release date: June 20, 2025
Label: Close to Human Music / Dependent Records
Line-up
Daniel Graves – all music, vocals & lyrics
Recorded by Daniel Graves at home studio “Das Atelier”, Wien (AT)
Mixed by Krischan Wesenberg at Studio 600, Gelsenkirchen (DE)
Mastered by Krischan Wesenberg at Studio 600, Gelsenkirchen (DE)
Artwork photography by Max Wichmann
Layout by Sam Pfannkuche
Links
www.aesthetic-perfection.net
www.facebook.com/aestheticperfection
www.instagram.com/thisisaestheticperfection