Musick:Dumbwaiters

Title: Musick

Label: Fiani

Genre: new wave/krautrock/dub

Rating: 6.7 of 7

First of all, when a band describes its sound as, “dark pop art-rock adult noises versus dub-dance-drone____nothingness,” I pay attention. Secondly, when a press release describes the band as “minimalist, bouncy pop that has been fused to blasts of aggressive guitar, raising ill-fitting comparisons to early Wire and the Fall alongside the previous Roxy Music-meets-Faust-meets-Lee “Scratch” Perry analogies,” I pay attention. Thirdly, when the bands sound actually somehow lives up to these completely ridiculous descriptions, I tip my hat to those wonderful people. Tampa, Florida’s Dumbwaiters have been around since 1997, but since have survived countless member and instrument changes experimenting with everything from a three-guitar line-up to being basically electric piano and bass. Whoever still actually remains in the band since those days past are doing a damn good job. Musick is a fun exploration into new wave, dub and krautrock (70s german movement from prog-rock to more mechanical and electronic sounds aka Can, Faust). And now I can forgive them for ripping off early Faint press photos casting shadows.

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