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May 16, 2018Rausch is something to get lost in, a long stroll free of the noise of modernity where the little details can draw near and take your breath away with their simple beauty.
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May 23, 2018Its arc is more satisfying than those of Narkopop or Konigsförst, though it lacks either of those albums’ sense of vastness. It certainly pales next to Pop and the underloved Zauberberg, which I’ve always felt were tied for the title of Voigt’s masterpiece.
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May 16, 2018In its brief seven tracks, Rausch barely makes it over an hour mark, but in that time frame, Voigt gives his listener a lot to unpack and offers the idea that he still has a lot more to say.
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Jul 20, 2018Rausch is a portrait of nature as the birthplace of modernity, and the birthplace of modernity is here.
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The WireJul 12, 2018More than any other Gas album Rausch captures the exhilaration one can feel deep in the woods, walking for far too long, marching ever forward without ever looking back. [Jun 2018, p.56]
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May 21, 2018It's music that lives in the liminal spaces and speaks to all the joy and terror that one can find at the boundaries of oneself. But it doesn't last. All the while, the throbbing pulse--quarter notes in time--continues its oppressive march, as it always has and always will.
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May 16, 2018While Rausch initially doesn't feel like quite as much of a momentous occasion as Narkopop did when it first arrived, it certainly isn't any less beautiful, and holds up to repeated listens as well as anything else in the project's essential discography.
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May 18, 2018Rausch, though hardly topical, feels current, as jarring and revealing as last night’s nightmare.
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May 17, 2018As Rausch shows, Voigt is still finding inspiration in his childhood memories and those old forests, subtly changing the way we see and hear them each time.
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May 18, 2018Rausch picks up right where Narkopop left off. The new effort—pointedly intended to be listened to in a single sitting--finds a pulse early on that almost never ceases, with Voigt filtering in guitar plucks that hit like wind chimes.
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UncutMay 16, 2018It's far more restrained, foreboding and ultimately effective. [Jun 2018, p.27]
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May 16, 2018Compared to Wolfgang Voigt's heyday, Rausch can feel a bit a like a protracted misstep. Although GAS's sound starts to sound a bit dated, Voigt can still be applauded for his approach to storytelling and patience in constructing his electro-orchestral worlds.
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MojoMay 21, 2018Its sprawling, ambient techno is a sensory overload of submerged beats, like windscreen wipers during drizzle, over which drift icy phrases and fragments. [Jul 2018, p.95]
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May 18, 2018Rausch’s ambitious structure is an incomplete but laudable step forward. If Narkopop was a belated capstone on the first era of Gas, Rausch might be the first real statement of a coming second phase. And its status as second-tier Voigt doesn’t necessarily portend dire things to come.