The Germans
Spirituality
Boomkat Product Review:
This is wonderfully wyrd; The Germans’ sibling piece to 2019’s ‘Sexuality’ is a riddle wrapped in a dream, seeking solace in bucolia and finding a strange blend of proggy dream-pop and ambient chamber jazz RIYL Mark Hollis, Kate Bush, Enya, He Said’s ‘Take Care’ - “A sonic fever dream directed by David Cronenberg”
The 2nd in the band’s “Germanity” trilogy depicts a dream-textured vision of noirish, imaginative songwriting ideally embellished and shaded with a unique instrumental palette including Suzanne Ciani’s early digital synths, a treasured mid C.18th French horn, classical guitar and prepared piano that harmonise and curdle to conjure its compelling sense of interiority. Strewn with inviting surprises at every turn, the album’s central thrust questions a sense of “spirituality” in the modern day by drawing upon and subtly warping those styles that have become shorthand for a sense of spirituality in contemporary pop musicks.
Under the guiding hand of producer Micha Volders, the band lure into an inner world marbled with mystique, where fallen choirboy vocals haunt lustrous, chiming FM synth dimensions and elide careful acoustic recordings in a spectral melange that steers to the safer side of surreality, never feeling overblown, and intricately wrought with the the sort of hallucinatory detail that keeps us coming back to peruse its waking dreamlike qualities.
They play our spine like an FM synth keyboard with the opening frisson of pads and multitracked choral layers paving the way for Rozanne Descheemaekers’ floating French horn on ‘Ich Sagte’, while ‘Take a Deep Breath’ undoubtedly salutes Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis, but ruptured with turns of phrase calling to mind Graham Lewis’ last He Said album via Barry Adamson jazz noir. A central highlight ‘The Dreamer’ again pitches somewhere adjacent mark Hollis and Julee Cruise, while they prove equally adept t lowkey groovers in the submerged FM synth jazz noir pearl ‘Mercury in Retrograde’, and the oneiric traction is felt akin to Coil or C93/HÖH’s ’The Dream of a Shadow of Smoke’ in a parting passage of the queered lullaby ‘As it Ends’, into ‘Within the Dream’ and trembling closer ‘Ende’.
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Boomkat Product Review:
This is wonderfully wyrd; The Germans’ sibling piece to 2019’s ‘Sexuality’ is a riddle wrapped in a dream, seeking solace in bucolia and finding a strange blend of proggy dream-pop and ambient chamber jazz RIYL Mark Hollis, Kate Bush, Enya, He Said’s ‘Take Care’ - “A sonic fever dream directed by David Cronenberg”
The 2nd in the band’s “Germanity” trilogy depicts a dream-textured vision of noirish, imaginative songwriting ideally embellished and shaded with a unique instrumental palette including Suzanne Ciani’s early digital synths, a treasured mid C.18th French horn, classical guitar and prepared piano that harmonise and curdle to conjure its compelling sense of interiority. Strewn with inviting surprises at every turn, the album’s central thrust questions a sense of “spirituality” in the modern day by drawing upon and subtly warping those styles that have become shorthand for a sense of spirituality in contemporary pop musicks.
Under the guiding hand of producer Micha Volders, the band lure into an inner world marbled with mystique, where fallen choirboy vocals haunt lustrous, chiming FM synth dimensions and elide careful acoustic recordings in a spectral melange that steers to the safer side of surreality, never feeling overblown, and intricately wrought with the the sort of hallucinatory detail that keeps us coming back to peruse its waking dreamlike qualities.
They play our spine like an FM synth keyboard with the opening frisson of pads and multitracked choral layers paving the way for Rozanne Descheemaekers’ floating French horn on ‘Ich Sagte’, while ‘Take a Deep Breath’ undoubtedly salutes Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis, but ruptured with turns of phrase calling to mind Graham Lewis’ last He Said album via Barry Adamson jazz noir. A central highlight ‘The Dreamer’ again pitches somewhere adjacent mark Hollis and Julee Cruise, while they prove equally adept t lowkey groovers in the submerged FM synth jazz noir pearl ‘Mercury in Retrograde’, and the oneiric traction is felt akin to Coil or C93/HÖH’s ’The Dream of a Shadow of Smoke’ in a parting passage of the queered lullaby ‘As it Ends’, into ‘Within the Dream’ and trembling closer ‘Ende’.
Recommended!
Boomkat Product Review:
This is wonderfully wyrd; The Germans’ sibling piece to 2019’s ‘Sexuality’ is a riddle wrapped in a dream, seeking solace in bucolia and finding a strange blend of proggy dream-pop and ambient chamber jazz RIYL Mark Hollis, Kate Bush, Enya, He Said’s ‘Take Care’ - “A sonic fever dream directed by David Cronenberg”
The 2nd in the band’s “Germanity” trilogy depicts a dream-textured vision of noirish, imaginative songwriting ideally embellished and shaded with a unique instrumental palette including Suzanne Ciani’s early digital synths, a treasured mid C.18th French horn, classical guitar and prepared piano that harmonise and curdle to conjure its compelling sense of interiority. Strewn with inviting surprises at every turn, the album’s central thrust questions a sense of “spirituality” in the modern day by drawing upon and subtly warping those styles that have become shorthand for a sense of spirituality in contemporary pop musicks.
Under the guiding hand of producer Micha Volders, the band lure into an inner world marbled with mystique, where fallen choirboy vocals haunt lustrous, chiming FM synth dimensions and elide careful acoustic recordings in a spectral melange that steers to the safer side of surreality, never feeling overblown, and intricately wrought with the the sort of hallucinatory detail that keeps us coming back to peruse its waking dreamlike qualities.
They play our spine like an FM synth keyboard with the opening frisson of pads and multitracked choral layers paving the way for Rozanne Descheemaekers’ floating French horn on ‘Ich Sagte’, while ‘Take a Deep Breath’ undoubtedly salutes Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis, but ruptured with turns of phrase calling to mind Graham Lewis’ last He Said album via Barry Adamson jazz noir. A central highlight ‘The Dreamer’ again pitches somewhere adjacent mark Hollis and Julee Cruise, while they prove equally adept t lowkey groovers in the submerged FM synth jazz noir pearl ‘Mercury in Retrograde’, and the oneiric traction is felt akin to Coil or C93/HÖH’s ’The Dream of a Shadow of Smoke’ in a parting passage of the queered lullaby ‘As it Ends’, into ‘Within the Dream’ and trembling closer ‘Ende’.
Recommended!
Boomkat Product Review:
This is wonderfully wyrd; The Germans’ sibling piece to 2019’s ‘Sexuality’ is a riddle wrapped in a dream, seeking solace in bucolia and finding a strange blend of proggy dream-pop and ambient chamber jazz RIYL Mark Hollis, Kate Bush, Enya, He Said’s ‘Take Care’ - “A sonic fever dream directed by David Cronenberg”
The 2nd in the band’s “Germanity” trilogy depicts a dream-textured vision of noirish, imaginative songwriting ideally embellished and shaded with a unique instrumental palette including Suzanne Ciani’s early digital synths, a treasured mid C.18th French horn, classical guitar and prepared piano that harmonise and curdle to conjure its compelling sense of interiority. Strewn with inviting surprises at every turn, the album’s central thrust questions a sense of “spirituality” in the modern day by drawing upon and subtly warping those styles that have become shorthand for a sense of spirituality in contemporary pop musicks.
Under the guiding hand of producer Micha Volders, the band lure into an inner world marbled with mystique, where fallen choirboy vocals haunt lustrous, chiming FM synth dimensions and elide careful acoustic recordings in a spectral melange that steers to the safer side of surreality, never feeling overblown, and intricately wrought with the the sort of hallucinatory detail that keeps us coming back to peruse its waking dreamlike qualities.
They play our spine like an FM synth keyboard with the opening frisson of pads and multitracked choral layers paving the way for Rozanne Descheemaekers’ floating French horn on ‘Ich Sagte’, while ‘Take a Deep Breath’ undoubtedly salutes Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis, but ruptured with turns of phrase calling to mind Graham Lewis’ last He Said album via Barry Adamson jazz noir. A central highlight ‘The Dreamer’ again pitches somewhere adjacent mark Hollis and Julee Cruise, while they prove equally adept t lowkey groovers in the submerged FM synth jazz noir pearl ‘Mercury in Retrograde’, and the oneiric traction is felt akin to Coil or C93/HÖH’s ’The Dream of a Shadow of Smoke’ in a parting passage of the queered lullaby ‘As it Ends’, into ‘Within the Dream’ and trembling closer ‘Ende’.
Recommended!
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Boomkat Product Review:
This is wonderfully wyrd; The Germans’ sibling piece to 2019’s ‘Sexuality’ is a riddle wrapped in a dream, seeking solace in bucolia and finding a strange blend of proggy dream-pop and ambient chamber jazz RIYL Mark Hollis, Kate Bush, Enya, He Said’s ‘Take Care’ - “A sonic fever dream directed by David Cronenberg”
The 2nd in the band’s “Germanity” trilogy depicts a dream-textured vision of noirish, imaginative songwriting ideally embellished and shaded with a unique instrumental palette including Suzanne Ciani’s early digital synths, a treasured mid C.18th French horn, classical guitar and prepared piano that harmonise and curdle to conjure its compelling sense of interiority. Strewn with inviting surprises at every turn, the album’s central thrust questions a sense of “spirituality” in the modern day by drawing upon and subtly warping those styles that have become shorthand for a sense of spirituality in contemporary pop musicks.
Under the guiding hand of producer Micha Volders, the band lure into an inner world marbled with mystique, where fallen choirboy vocals haunt lustrous, chiming FM synth dimensions and elide careful acoustic recordings in a spectral melange that steers to the safer side of surreality, never feeling overblown, and intricately wrought with the the sort of hallucinatory detail that keeps us coming back to peruse its waking dreamlike qualities.
They play our spine like an FM synth keyboard with the opening frisson of pads and multitracked choral layers paving the way for Rozanne Descheemaekers’ floating French horn on ‘Ich Sagte’, while ‘Take a Deep Breath’ undoubtedly salutes Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis, but ruptured with turns of phrase calling to mind Graham Lewis’ last He Said album via Barry Adamson jazz noir. A central highlight ‘The Dreamer’ again pitches somewhere adjacent mark Hollis and Julee Cruise, while they prove equally adept t lowkey groovers in the submerged FM synth jazz noir pearl ‘Mercury in Retrograde’, and the oneiric traction is felt akin to Coil or C93/HÖH’s ’The Dream of a Shadow of Smoke’ in a parting passage of the queered lullaby ‘As it Ends’, into ‘Within the Dream’ and trembling closer ‘Ende’.
Recommended!
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