Klaus Johann Grobe - Vergangenes (2014) video free download

Song of the Swiss duo Klaus Johann Grobe. Following their self-titled EP from 2013, as well as a highly-acclaimed single called 'Traumhaft', they now release their debut album Im Sinne Der Zeit. The first impression you get is that it's not like anything you've heard before. For starters, they sing in German (and I must add one is not very acquainted with the language being used in this kind of Kraut-Tropicália sounds); this gives their songs a visceral feeling of "estrangement" that, added to a faux ad-libitum vibe, basically annuls our notion of space and time, making it impossible to tell if a track has been playing for three minutes or three hours.

Sevi Landolt's synths on tracks like 'Les Grecks' or the album's first preview 'Between The Buttons', provide Im Sinne Der Zeit's solid structure, working both as an agglutinative element and as an interesting characteristic of the band's sound (very similar to what happens to French band La Femme's "strange wave"). On tracks like 'Koffer', for example, the beat is brought to the front, stopping the keyboard from imposing too heavily on the track - this results in a more dramatic insertion of the main riff and a subsequent democratisation of every part of the track. Also present on tracks such as 'Schlaufen Der Zukunft' is a very jazzy undertone - a toxic, smoke curtain made of temporary opiate numbness that strains the time-stood-still feeling (there is a reason why the album is called Im Sinne Der Zeit, "In the Sense of Time"), while 'Aufstand' stands out with a steadier, funkier groove.

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