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Recommended by us on 8th February 2011
...according to our Clinton on Fri 28 Jan, 2011.
They have been making music as long as Phil here has been breathing. What an extraordinary career Faust have had. It takes something special to be 40 years into your life span and to still be producing music as edgy and vital as this. This faction of Faust consists of two original members plus bizarrely the singer out of Gallon Drunk (!?) and an ex member of Bender. The music is taught spidery, splintered rock with pummeling drums, industrial metal crashing, sinewy guitars and cut-and-paste samples. The whole thing has a semi-improvised feel but is always listenable with melody being seemingly as vital as the progressive experimentation. I'm not an expert on Faust so I have no idea where this fits in their lengthy catalogue but taking it on its own terms its a very affecting listen and certainly no audible glass in cement mixer moments.
Faust have been around for over 40 years. Since 2007, the line-up of the Krautrock legend has comprised founder members Jean-Hervé Peron and
Zappi Diermaier, the English musician James Johnston, founder of the brutish blues rockers Gallon Drunk and long-standing member of Nick Cave &
the Bad Seeds, plus the English painter, filmmaker, author and musician Geraldine Swayne.
On "Something Dirty" the creativity and musical ideas of these four personalities coalesce into a perfect symbiosis of sound. It is at once hypnotic,
repetitive, melodic, exhilarating, psychedelic, menacing, dadaist, ethereal. Johnston's guitar saws its way through Diermaier's archaic beats,
harmonically enriched by Peron's powerful bass and Swayne's psychedelic keyboards. Time and again, Faust revisit their avant-garde roots,
experimenting with voices and unusual instruments. (A flamethrower and goat hooves can be detected in their arsenal of sonic sources.) Best of all,
however, Faust have succeeded in reproducing the raw energy and roughness of their live performances on "something dirty". Breathtaking stuff
Essential facts: - Faust: formed in Hamburg in 1970, one of the main protagonists of Krautrock. Successful overseas, viewed with suspicion at home. Now revered worldwide as pioneers of avant-garde rock music - Band line-up: Jean Hervé Peron, Zappi W. Diermaier (both founder members), James Johnston (Gallon Drunk, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds), Geraldine Swayne (...Bender, Bad Servant) - Available on CD (digipak), 180g vinyl
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