Audiac - Thank You for Not Discussing the Outside World

The music of Audiac is melancholic. At times, it is even bleak and despairing. 'Oh', you might say, 'what a way to introduce a record. Now why should I listen to such a drab thing?' Here is why: Because Audiac's music is still so full of beauty that no matter how barren your emotional life or how bleak the view from your window might be, it still makes you want to go on exploring life for 'all its useless beauty' (a quote from one of their songs but also from someone else). After an energetic opener, Audiac come up with an absolute pearl of a song: 'Sneaking' gives you with that four o' clock-in-the-morning-and-I-am-the-only-living-being-in-this-world-feeling. This music tells you in a very gentle way that loneliness and despair are part of human life. It makes you feel lonely and at the same time it lets you know you're in good company. Such is the power of Audiac's music. It took the band almost four years to record this album. By the time of finishing it, they had crammed so many ideas into it, that the songs were on the verge of bursting. So they took the tapes to Hans-Joachim Irmler and asked him to produce them. In this process, almost half the ideas went out of the window of Irmler's Klangbad-Studio. The band themselves were at this point too much immersed in their work to have the necessary distance, so Irmler did the purging work on his own (working as a sonic reducer, you might say). A set-up like this would be a horror-scenario to most bands. Yet Alex Wiemer, Singer and Bassist with Audiac, thinks that a composer has to be able to let go of his work, of the idea he has of a certain composition. And so he let go of 'Sneaking' and was very pleased with what his partner Niklas David, keyboarder and arranger, came up with. And then they were both happy with what Irmler made of it. All their channels are open, as Alex says. beautiful cover artwork by Apfel Zet, Berlin - artwork of the LP sleeve is different to the CD-version

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