Where In This World, by The Notwist (7" on City Slang)

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Rating: unmoved This record left our Clinton feeling unmoved.

I was one of the 0.00000001% of people who didn't like The Notwists 'Neon Golden' album and the 6 year gap hasn't changed things as their 'comeback' single 'Where in this World' has left me completely cold once again. The others here like it more than me, citing Radiohead and Mouse on Mars as influences on their glitchy sound. But to me their music needs a bit fat kick up the arse to inject some life and energy into it. This is on 7" only with an Odd Nosdam remix on the b-side. We also have the vinyl of their brand new album 'The Devil, you+me' but we haven't had time to review it which is probably just as well if i'm in the hot seat.

What the label says:

TRACKLISTING: (1) Where in this World (2) Sleep

OVERVIEW:
“Drenched in harmonies, strings and nocturnal computer bleeps, it’s been worth the wait” NME

After a six years hiatus Bavaria’s finest, The Notwist, return with a single, ‘Where In This World’, taken from the forthcoming full length The Devil, You + Me, the long-awaited follow up to the 2001 classic, Neon Golden.

With otherworldly orchestral sounds performed by the suitably stellar Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra, ‘Where In This World’ is a perfect evocation of a state of claustrophobic tension, driven by uneasy strings, a heart-beat drum pattern and distorted buzzing, with The Notwist’s unmistakeable tweakery building to crescendo an atmosphere of nervous tension. Think Morton Feldman as filtered through an array of carefully underplayed electronic treatments.

“There’s no escape from this circling place”, Markus Archer repeats, in his gentle deadpan vocal, evoking all too well the vortex that is the restless inner workings of a tired mind.