Diskomfort is the latest EP by Vlimmer and arrived just after I had my hand operation and was in loads of Diskomfort, certainly the most appropriate time for me to be send an ep of this name. This is Alexander Donat's latest in a long line of Vlimmer Ep's, from this most productive German act.
The Ep opens with Firmament an almost glacial synth pop tune that has a chamber edge, a drum pattern that seems almost too insistent compared to the rest of the music, that swirls almost cathedral echo like around us, this sounds like it's been recorded in a huge room.
Ungleichgeweicht has carefully balanced dual vocals, for a song all about Imbalance, something this world is certainly within a maelstrom of imbalance, the pumping club drum machine, engulfed by walls of synths, slipping and sliding on the unbalanced floor, can we ever get everything back into proper balance once more, that includes the stereo settings and the mixing desk!
It's Not The End Of the World is a cover of Super Furry Animals classic sung in German, made into a Darkwave euro pop anthem, that would get a good few heads turning if played at an Indie club.
Freidhofen is exactly what a darkwave goth act like Vlimmer ought to sing about, this Graveyard is full of dark blackened gravestones, Sculptures of Angels and the blessed Mary collapsing at strange angles as subsidence works it's distorting alchemy, we stroll trough that Graveyard in the dead of night with the brothers of mercy.
Diskomfort uses builds of synth mania crashing into typewriter shallows, wailing Diskomfort of the sounds crashing through your brain, we are all in the sort of state of despair at the Diskomfort of the times we are living through, this is a fraught exploration of our current maelstrom.
The ep closes with Nachleben a rather forlorn sounding evocation of the afterlife, getting yet more previously published writing from your favourite authors, finding out they released more works in death than in life, the gloom of knowing real fame only comes with death for some, so I had better get on with reading the two mammoth Franz Kafka biographies sitting on the shelf here the master of this genre, but what will the digital afterlife be like. The actual lyrics may be more of a reflection of what the afterlife may entail.
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