Vlimmer being a super productive band are back with their follow up to Zerschopfung the bands third album, that came out in August of 2023. They followed on from the earlier 18 ep's released alongside Alexander Leonard Donat's other projects that include the Fir Cone Children and running his Blackjack Illuminist record label.
The album opens with Ruckflut that is sort of chamber goth pop with semi choral vocals, as all sorts of odd percussive elements with weird interludes, at times it feels like this is being played in a cathedral on the outskirts of hades.
Luftmangel thankfully doesn't suck the oxygen out of the room, as the squiggly synths layer in dark cadences, as the fears of an airless world are explored through waves of elliptical synths.
Korpersuche gives all sorts of signals and nods to the listener, as the dark brooding synths explore how we use body language to send covert messages to each other, in this claustrophobic atmosphere it could be how to survive.
Stirnseite has a carefully built structure helping us to turn a corner, as the reasonably sweet synths flow against dark brooding percussion, with seemingly precise vocal lines, declaiming against the music.
Trotzmacht should be heard on a massive club system at about 2.30 am when all the weird synth noises and pulsing malaise will hit your brain, helping the dancefloor explode, as the notes extrude the pains of modern living. Deep dark menacing instrumental techno.
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The album closes with Hohenluft taking deep breaths of that mountain air, but it has none of the innocence of the Sound Of Music, this is darkly prescient gloom synth pop, with a pulsing beat that mutates throughout the eight and a half minutes we are inhaling that Mountain Air, as the voices come out from behind the trees in the mysterious breakdown, as a stream starts babbling out of the mountain on its way to become a mighty river, the choral monks accent our need for clean air.
Find out more at https://blackjackilluministrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mehrsch-pfung https://www.facebook.com/VlimmerMusic
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