While I'm still chuckling in a juvenile fashion about the band's name, here's what the press release says about the band's debut album:
'Krapp is an interesting band from France. Imagine your kitchen plenty of ingredients, but all recipes you’ve tried are boring and you want to taste something new. Krapp's songs are results of this culinary-chemical experimentation. You can hear bits and pieces reminding jazz, rock, electro, pop, classical music. But the idea was not to fit in a category, but to explore, to experiment with sounds and create an original musical universe. Krapp enjoys using non binary rhythms and dissonant melodies. Drums are replaced by the chirping of crickets, or the crack of opening a can of coke. There is no limit in this sense in the music of Krapp. Lyrics can remind surrealist modern tales or non-sense jokes. All is fine as long as the word suits the music and evokes different meanings and feelings.'
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Yeah, so, where was I? Oh yes... it's not actually as bad as one might expect. Do I hear jazz, rock, electro, pop, classical music? I do, and more besides. Do large portions of the album sound like a jazzy Bjork doing minimalist trip-hop? A little. Does it work? For the most part, yes, and swampy post-punk numbers like Passe Passe really show that KRAPP have some chops when it comes to making an abrasive noise.
A little patchy and incoherent it may be, but there's no shortage of interesting moments that make 'A Void On A Cradle' anything but complete KRAPP.
KRAPP Online
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