Lament

"Mørkt, mageløst og dragende krigsmesterværk fra Blixa og co. ... I anledning af 100-året for første verdenskrig har Blixa Bargeld og hans kumpaner skabt et værk, der i vanlig stil sprudler af kompromisløs kreativitet. Indledt af over fem et halvt minuts skramlende og knirkende Kriegsmaschinerie, bevæger Lament sig over engelsk-tyske krigshymner til den næsten sanglignende, minimalistisk dragende The Willi-Nicki Telegrams (en humoristisk AutoTune-telegramudveksling mellem Kejser Wilhelm og Zar Nikolaj 2. af Rusland) og folder sig ud som et mørkt, mangefacetteret og besættende værk".

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"Lament's strength lies in the music rather than the amount of historical study that's gone into it, which is just as well: no one ever decided to listen to an album because it was meticulously researched. There are a couple of moments when the concept overshadows the music - Der 1 Welkreig (Percussion Version), in which a variety of plastic pipes are bashed in order to represent the entry of different countries into the war, requires a kind of chart in the CD booklet to explain what's going on - but for the most part, what's striking about Lament is how well the music would work divorced from its source material".

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