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Review: 'faUst'
'Fresh Air'   

-  Label: 'Bureau B'
-  Genre: 'Rock' -  Release Date: '26th May 2017'

Our Rating:
The new album by faUSt was recorded in changing ensembles at changing locations during a 28 day tour of the US.

The collaborations are varied, ranging from live lecture (Barbara Manning), to viola (Ysanne Spevack), to poems by friends translated and recited in Polish. This is from the seventeen and a half minute title track which opens proceedings. No doubt this is a political track and the same can be said of the album as a whole. "Can you breathe calmly here, or are we being poisoned?". It builds into a dense affair. 'Le Poulie' is French spoken word over a ramshackle track of radio tunings and noise music.

'Chlorophyl' is politics again, maybe a statement about the world we live in currently, or maybe a skronk to arms for the future. Either way, it is a multi-faceted trip into the unknown. Final track 'Fish' "is a song about you and me" and the sea and environmental disaster and our ultimate place in it, or whatever you want it to be about frankly. It is perhaps marginally the highlight of a particularly good album. Our place in the grand scheme of things may be small but our impact on everything around us seems peculiarly devastating.

We should consider this and listening to music is one way to do it. It looks like Messrs Peron and Diermaier have made a worthwhile contribution yet again. Music playing through them near you soon. Listen to the fish.
  author: Leo Newbiggin

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faUst - Fresh Air