"Where do you here of these people?!"OK, I am a sick pup when it comes to new music. I recently hit a soft spot for new tunes from names I'm familiar with. So what does the Ol' Mad Rocker do? He heads to see what's charting in other countries, and in this case, Germany. Found a couple of great rock albums there, but all in German, though that didn't stop me decades ago with BAP, Falco, etc.. This album, though, was in English and kinda intriguing on a sample listen. So I invest in the deluxe version and whew, it's 95 minutes. And admittedly, after the first couple of tracks, I wondered what the hell I heard on the sample listen that made me get this aural Valium. As it turns out, the album is a little back-heavy, with the latter tracks hitting the mark a lot more, and the extra material even better. So I've edited down my version to about 60 minutes and I love it. Some vocals remind me of Mark Gane from Martha & the Muffins. I hear Eno-era David Bowie and David Sylvian. There are some dissonant horns aka early Hunters & Collectors. One of the extra tracks could be a Dredg song. And most of the categorization I see for this is "folk." Really? Nah...
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