Spells And Daubs is Kreidler's latest album and was recorded in Dusseldorf before being mixed in London by Peter Walsh who is known for producing Shalamar and Lynx among others.
There's noting like starting an album with a Tantrum in this case of the type that features a typewriter set against some repetitive percussion that evolves as the synth washes over it all, it is not a very angry Tantrum more just throwing one or two toys out of the pram style.
Obviously, the toys thrown out of the pram during Tantrum are not the Toys I Never Sell as these are of course special toys, the ones that hold key memories of childhood, that Tin Drum your parents found in Suburban Berlin et al.
They appear to keep the bands Dirty Laundry in an echo chamber of sorts with a muddy squelchy floor and the most elastic of bass strings being plucked as someone walks slowly across the room.
Revery is a middle of the night waking dreamscape with a slow pulse and sinuous bass textures conjuring up visions of China in the mist.
Unframed Drawings sound like they are hanging in a gallery around the corner from St Stephens Cathedral in Vienna, only they aren't quite as full of dread and destruction as that locale is infamous for, as the skittery drums weave in and out of the tonal keyboards and the engulfing warmth of the fretless bass.
Freundchen opens with an almost siren like synth sounding out a warning, as the main synth pattern seems semi buried in the mix slowly emerging among the pulsing sounds.
Arise Above and feel that bass sink deep into your soul as the late-night drive through the black forest has started to lead you up the side of a mountain to hear the piano tinkling into your soul and thoughts of Superman permeate your brain.
Music Follows Suit seems to be re-working a Chinese Opera into a Teutonic field of dreams and imaginings like they are trying to recreate their own great wall of sound as the shaker is trying to tease an I Ching stick to give them the next direction to go in.
Arena almost feels like they have reworked the theme tune to that TV programme into something even more arty than before, with an achingly familiar bassline and almost tabla style drumming to make a cool incantatory dreamscape.
The album closes with some Greetings From Dave it's unclear which Dave but it's more likely to be Dave the Rave than it is Dave Mustaine or Dave Cameron, this has some Indian and Chinese elements built around the central pulsing beat.
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