It's a fantastic slice of Pop, great songs with some meaning.

Tim Tyran is back with his fourth release, breaking down more genre-defining walls and shitting on any semblance of pigeonholing. His past releases were all radically different, going from the rap-centric hip-hopish Quite a Dilemma[1] to the heavier industrial overtones of the old Innuendo[2], Tyran’s music has blasted across styles without much ado about nothin’. This time, The Debris Field brings us a softer side to Tim’s antics, with New Order and Backlash style synthetic movements, brilliant arrangement and a more mature, older and wiser Tim Tyran than we’ve ever known. While Tim is the sole backbone of Bunker Soldier, he brings in lots of friends to mix things up. Les Farrington, for example, is one of five vocalists that takes on the first three, and thereafter tenth, track of The Debris Field. Les’ vocals are just scratchy enough to be interesting and just soft enough to be smooth. Much here on Debris Field is ballad based, slow but moving. Mixtures of synthpop, power ballad rock and EBM new wave mix together into well layered song structures drawn together with great vocals and solid engineering. The lyrics throughout The Debris Field is a bit non-chalant really, but the smoothness of the electronics and the ease at which they seem to come about makes up for any lack of high-brow verbiage. The opening and chorus piano of Drive Me Home is simple but excellent. I love the vocals of Drive Me Home as well – Hildegunn Gjedrem Surdal provides them here and does a great job. Reminiscent of Bel Canto as is the following Full Circle, though this one applies some stronger guitar movements and steps up the BPMs a tad. Disappoint reminds us of Tim’s underground finesse with darker beats and rhythms, harkening back to the Triple Threat[3] or Innuendo releases with his signature guitar riffs, sliding bass and veiled vocals. Infection has a similar vibe but comes out almost trip-hop with memories of Scarlet Life coming about. The pleasant piano is back in the final track, In Rose’s Garden. Slow and subtle male vocals from Lou Marini – if I were to pick a song from The Debris Field to make a music video with it would be In Rose’s Garden – the imagery of this one is sweet yet sad and is one of the most heartfelt on the album. The end blathering on The Debris Field is that I was very surprised by what I found here. Having been listening to Bunker Soldier since the late 90s and having seen them perform live with all the energy and frantic nature of a hummingbird on crack, to find such smoothly layered ballads and synthpop music as on The Debris Field was completely out of left field. Unexpected, but it’s very well done and definitely a keeper. - Marcus Pan

Bunker Soldier derives his name from a good-old OMD song. A one man synthetic orchestra invented by Timothy Tyran that is not a new band by any chance within this so-called underground music world, bearing luggage of 5 albums along, and now the 5th of them all brings forth a stunning overall effect. Seemingly a band under such name should have played really dark and harsh electro maneuvers, but this time around the names are illusion and the music is everything. Firstly "The Debris Field" cover shines gloomily with a trashy landscapes with tons of garbage and the seagulls the eternal satellites of the places depicted on the sleeve. However a symbolic metaphor is here, and apparently a concept of the album is built upon the 9/11 afterthoughts. This becomes more obvious given the fact that Timothy himself lost something precious in his previous career as an airline pilot. Now he turned out to be a diving instructor sometimes taking a plunge against deep waves of electro music garbage (in a positive sense though). Recorded under the production supervision of Erik Herbst somewhere in the Texas solemn deserts, this album sounds solemnly as well, so instant and open-heartedly. The opener song "Darkness Falls", a greasy-sweet echo of the 80s, sets on the atmosphere of early morning, when all gets up and going smoothly further on towards the dusk. Craftily played piano parts and swift guitar passages do it almost flawlessly, easily and promising even a greater follow-ups. Then it has to be true: "Close The Door", a masterpiece, is waiting next door, full of courage and life and simple truths. Les Farrington's vocals seem to get perfectly fit into the musical environment! Romantic shoo-ins, Tears For Fears, U2 and other waves of obsessions you know can be found here. So the story unfolds, from the good head-start to the sparkling end. A fragile sentimental rhythm invented again by the ex-pilot who surely has seen what most of you did not even dream about. And something is lost now and the music testifies it all clearly. After all this can be called a hymn, an anthem of life, freedom and courage. A weapon of romantics and optimists. A great pop music cd made in a great way. Quite melancholic, with that qualified mood of the 80s, with nostalgia weaved into it, something precious Tim mastered to keep cherished and warm deep inside while living in the debris fields of the outside. -Oleg V. Gurkin

Bunker Soldiers is actually a song of OMD. And somewhere into the 80's Tim Tyran lost his heart. "Darkness Falls" is perhaps the elektronischste / standout song, but afterwards the true passion of the cd becomes clear. Despite the OMD band name, cd title is "The Debris Field", a clear hommage to the early U2. "Close The Door" and "When All Is Lost" has the same guitar runs, with majestic melodies, as one heard it with "With Or Without You" and "Where The Streets Have No Name". Thus the project is naturally superpopping, perhaps nearly already a little too smooth. Tim also has a certain Hildegunn Surdal singing for Bunker Soldier. She sings the pieces in the center section to that CD, which is a little strange, because one adjusted oneself to a male voice. That should not be a negative, however. Hildegunn lends the pieces a certain eroticism, which does not happen with Les Farrington's vocals. -Nuuc