Another kickass EP by this suspiciously Berlin-sounding Augsburg group delivers four perfectly balanced, elaborately constructed bursts of post punk that knows to spice up the genre-typical darkness and despair with plenty of an Estranged-esque sense of melody, exquisitely exploiting oldschool post punk’s established tropes, conventions and possibilities while applying firm pressure towards the genre’s boundaries and limitations all the same. As with their previous EP, there’s really no way around comparing them to a number of Berlin-based groups á la Pigeon, Glaas, early Diät and Pretty Hurts, german-language acts such as Die Wärme, Hyäne, Maske, Die Verlierer and L’appel Du Vide as well as international genre powerhouses like Rank/Xerox, Criminal Code, Sievehead and, as i’ve already mentioned, The Estranged.
