Tromatic Reflexxions

Submitted by Richard Norbury on 14 February 2013 - 10:51pm

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Artist:

Von Sudenfed

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a_31

Nationality:

Germany / UK

Year:

2 007

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Track-listing:

Fledermaus Can't Get Enough*The Rhinohead*Flooded*Family Feud*Serious Brainskin*Speech Contamination/German Fear Of Osterreich*The Young The Faceless And The Codes*Duckrog*Chicken Yaiamas*That Sound Wiped*Jbak Lois Lane*Dearest Friends

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Nominator:

Bean

meeting-ID:

m_13

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Spotify-URL:

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Grooveshark-URL:

Tromatic+Reflexxion/6966983

Short-title:

tromatic

nominator-ID:

u_14

Meeting-date:

Wednesday, 30 July 2008

MusicBrainz-URL:

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Wikipedia-URL:

Tromatic_Reflexxions

Spotify-link-type:

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Discogs-URL:

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Allmusic-URL:

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reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

You don’t look like no goddam singer songwriter to me

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2-7-8

I’ve got a few Mouse on Mars albums and they don’t sound much like this. And I've got loads of Fall ones too and they don't either. This really is a mad fusion, a dangerous cocktail of extreme, industrial, Teuton-tronic beats and rambling, snarling, mumbling Manc-rants. How could anyone in their right minds say no to that?

I think Mr Smith really is the master vocalist, he deconstructs, lampoons and destroys the accepted paradigm for vocal performance before your very ears. This is at the whole opposite end of the spectrum from X-factor type singing values and all the better for that, this is the singer calling the shots, not some battery-farmed, neutered product.

The music is often frantic and aggressive but is actually a clean, complex and varied and makes a good back-drop-stroke-contrast to the vocals. This has some fantastic, manic, Über electro dance music - exactly the perfect sounds to blow up your speakers with, should you feel the need arise. There’s also various guitar-based approaches on other songs, making a good overall mix. Even the weaker songs in the middle aren’t too bad if you’re in the right mood. But there are some great tracks on here, my favourite is Flooded; DJ-as-god bragging taken to a mad extreme and beyond. "I was the DJ tonight". Indeed.
80

reviewed by

Richard Norbury

Would have given this an even higher rating, but felt it was let down by a few mediocre tracks in the middle of the album. Mental beats, mental vocals it all makes a lot of sense. Tracks 1, 2 and 10 are great.
66

reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

A decent effort, but give me a true Fall album anyday.

It's difficult to remember that you're not listening to a Fall album. Anything done by Mark E Smith tends to sound somewhat similar, so perhaps this should have been release as a Fall album, to avoid the potential confusion that this might have been something significally different.

It isn't. It's essentially his own songs with a techy backdrop provided by Von Sudenfed. The only ones I really enjoy are the more tuneful ones, where he sings a bit, and of course these are the most 'Fall like' tracks. The others are mostly him whittering on, as he does, and you have to be a true Mark E Smith fan to really appreciate them, otherwise this style grates quickly.

A decent effort, but give me a true Fall album anyday.