faust – Blickwinkel

Bureau B

Zappi Diermaier did a good job with Daumenbruch and continues to play to his percussive strengths on this latest faust fragmentation for Bureau B.

The breathtaking conviction of Blickwinkel’s opener “For Schlaghammer” is just superb — taut and titillating, that drowsy melodic gnawing beautifully through those dubby percussive punches. A hypnotically knotted flicker that slingshots plenty as its recoil-baked wares reel with clanking cutlery and swarfing offcut.

A track that quickly descends into the detuned sparring of “Künstliche Intelligenz”, finds the group in search of some weird-shaped fascination within the atonal, a nugget they intuitively grab-bag, attack with improvised invention, abruptly shunted into the acoustic choppiness of “Sunny Night”, a rhythmically bright strumfest feasting on chaotic colour and mutating injury, smoting a folksy insistence that diamonds your skull in shifting multiples.

The octane-stoked “Kriminelle Kur” is another clamouring beast of a track, buzzing in curving cinematics. Clatter-caught and cleverly forked, chocked full of pawing perspectives and subtle teases of shark-fin classical and vaselined jazz. The nocturnal-nipped “Die 5. Revolution” bringing to mind the dark fruit of the Faust album So Far, a whirr-fluttered ambience loosely greased in shattered beats and motorised grist, sizzling rat-tailed then bruised and battered into a chaotic meltdown dusting a charming ambient return.

Which leaves “Kratie” to kick out an amazing finale that just keeps giving. A satisfying effect-mulched oddness texturally roasting your noggin to its stutter-clustered tire-skidding end, sonically affirming this band’s claim on your musical heart all over again.

-Michael Rodham-Heaps-