Nebenkorper is the first album from Vlimmer that follows on from the recently completed series of 18 EP's he put out since 2015, so it's not a debut by any stretch. This album places Vlimmer deep in the maelstrom of Grim Wave, goth Industrial darkness that seems in tune with the times we live in. Vlimmer is one of Alexander Donat's bands and projects, since completing the series of 18 EP's he has changed all the instrumentation so this album that is mainly built around a Polybrute Synth. The album is out on Vinyl, Cassette, cd and download as well as a Box set version.
The album opens with Farbenmude that has a rather atmospheric opening with tribal drumming set against the synths before the almost choral sounding vocals come in that actually marks the start of the next tune Fensteraus that for me is obviously a song about Johnny Fenster, no matter what it's actually about this is dark and deeply pained.
Mutem has deep disturbing tribal drumming and vocals that move around the speakers like they are whispering all sorts of nasty things in your ears to disrupt and disturb you from being just another faceless member of society.
Things lighten up a good bit on Restfall that's sort of like a dark swirling Cure song with a claustrophobic edge to it.
Meter sounds pretty dancefloor ready for heavy rotation at your local goth ebm club until in the middle the drums start firing off salvos that feel like explosions at your ears and they synths swirl around drawing you into more circular patterns on the dancefloor.
Minusgesicht slows things down to a funereal pace with the drums punctuated by searing synth sounds and darkly evocative vocals.
I.P.A. is a good soundtrack to drink a good cold pint of India Pale Ale while sitting and arguing over what your favorite I.P.A. is, not sure that's what Alexander is singing about though, but my German isn't good enough to be sure.
Ad Astra makes me feel like I have been buried under the weight of the drums flying at me and the synths and very urgent vocals as they fly off to the stars without any help from Brad Pitt.
Wangendruck is a title that sounds like a strange perversion and the blast beat and dystopian synth sounds conjure up the darkest of fantasies making the old Bauhaus dictum of the Passion Of Lovers is for Death sound pleasant as you imagine the horrors unfolding in the back of that truck.
Kartenwarten is lighter almost dreamy sounding, not quite a nightmare more a slightly disturbed sleep. Kron is a far more disturbing sound and like an automaton out of control and on the rampage coming for your soul sounds come in to flail your brain and buried deep in the mix is a riff repeating like your last anchor to normality.
Nebenbei closes the album and doesn't in anyway sound like it was an addition to the album but is a bit slower and more thoughtful sounding as the atmospheric synths swell and swirl around bring to a close a wonderfully dark and disturbing album.
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