Twists (A visitor Arrives) is the seventh album Kreidler have released since signing to Bureau B records and adds to the bands now 30 year career. As ever the world of Kreidler is brought to life by Thomas Klein, Alex Paulick and Andreas Reihse who are assisted this time around by Khan Of Finland, Maxim Bosch, Natalie Beridze and Timucin Dundar.
The album opens with Polaris that feels like it's recorded deep beneath the ocean searching out now formations on the ocean bed, synths pulse with sonar intensity as the drums extrude new coral formations as a brass band seems to appear in the distant murk.
Tanger Telex pays sideways homage to one of the most intriguing bands to ever come out of the Eurovision Song Contest, but rather than taking us to a disco in Moscow Kreidler are in a sinuous easy listening jazz club in Tangiers, searching for any old men, who would have been the boys Burroughs was so obsessed by all those years ago, the sax solo follows them searching through the alleyways by the souk in search of lost tales.
Diver has pulsating synths denoting the journey deep beneath the waves in search of the beasts of the deep, hidden like long lost treasures on sunken wrecks, cymbal crashes denote each passing passage of time, making sure you don't run out of air and can surface in time.
Loisada Sisters is the first tune with vocals on the album as Kreidler play tribute to those mysterious sisters in there New York menagerie, this has cadences of Ze Records No wave disco disruptions, as they try to find themselves while feeling they have been double crossed again. Clearing up from just one more seedy adventure they got involved in without ever getting their due rewards.
Arithmetique is techno for the math rock generation, carefully calculated, building in intensity, as geometric patterns emerge from the notes and structures within the sounds.
Hands has a spoken word poem about hands shining through the weird entropic beats and percussion with slow seeping synth lines. As we wonder about all the things those hands are going to get up too.
Hopscotch will have the kids trying to dance like they are playing Hopscotch on the dancefloor, each time the bell rings you must make another move, as the imperious bassline is built around with 70's dub sound effects with Miami Vice synth lines with the occasional cymbal crash.
Mount Mason sounds rather squelchy as it displays all the silky skills Mason Mount does on the football field, this has in places a sightly glitchy edge as another defender is left scratching their heads, wondering if it's true you can see Mount Mason from Big Bend or not as those notes get the big bend effect thrown on them.
The album closes with Kandili a sweet tune based around some finger bells with a middle eastern flavour as if they are still wandering around the souk's seeking enlightenment.
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