Swiss industrial techno legends The Young Gods are back, with the bands eleventh studio album Appear Disappear. The bands line up is Cesare Pizzi, Franz Treichler and Bernard Trontin with guest appearances by Gaspar Narby and a Jesus Lizard sample. The album was produced by Reise and mixed by Franz Treichler and Bertrand Siffert at Airfield studios Ecuvillens.
The album opens with the title song Appear Dissappear a heavy industrial techno song about the tendency to disappear inside the machines that now run our live, the heavy bass and screeds of guitar and keyboards noise driving it on.
Sytemized is what we are all becoming, are you more machine than man, are those of you who are still fully human the enemy or can you still be friends, this is super heavy bass led industrial dancefloor with great questioning lyrics.
Blue Me Away is colossal sounding, pounding techno interspersions, between softer passages, spoken lyrics tell us know just how you’ve been Blue'd away, he will always, have a Place for you in his soul after what you did to him.
Hey Amour has almost Leonard Cohen style whispered vocals, for the love they felt, while re-working the lyrics to one of Telephones biggest hits, into a gloriously dark twisted techno love song.
Blackwater is almost as dark as the business of Blackwater, the mercenary arms supplier. Even if lyrically it seems more inspired by the Blackwater William Burroughs describes in The Ticket That Exploded with some of the same consequences.
Tu En Ami Du Temps uses the quiet loud formula to great effect, slow ambient passages, punctuated by devastating implosions of drums and synths.
Intertidal has them feeling like they are becoming lost in-between tides, never quite making land or floating properly out to sea, drums rise and fall like the tide. becoming more expressive. synths almost go proggy, they wake up without a face, it must have been a hell of a session.
Mes Yeux De Tous ups the pace, to a speed induced rampage, driven propulsive drums and synths engulfing you, Franz declaims the lyrics.
Shine That Drone almost sounds like an engine revving up, with weird warbling sounds and wobbleboard synth, the questions they have about weaponized drones, controlled by tribalistic drumming, perfect for a darkwave dancefloor, this needs a colossal club system behind it, when it will be truly monumental, the explosions of the laser weaponry doing battle, coming at you from all directions, a totally immersive experience a total Choon!!!
The album closes with Off The Radar weird, manipulated string bending delights, one of those journeys Off The Radar of what was supposed to be, nicely disjointed journey, dubbed sonar pulses, allow the chrysalis to evolve with the bomb, taking to new places now our love has gone.
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