Michael Mertens, Susanne Freytag, Ralf Dörper, and Claudia Brücken of Propaganda. (Credit: Peter Brown) Imagine an album that opens with a singer reciting an Edgar Allan Poe poem in an exotic Germanic ...

Propaganda’s group dynamics may also have been a bit too much for the band’s future. “I care deeply about this record,” says Lipson. “But it got nowhere at the time, and when I finished, I had to move ...