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Dec 18, 2014Blixa Bargeld and his consequential cohorts present a scrupulous, literate and multi-layered assemblage which subtly encompasses the enormity, the futility, the obsidian humour, the stark terror and the warnings from history (that, wouldn’t you know it, remain unheeded).
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Dec 17, 2014Lament is a deep and complex album. It is not so much a piece of music, as a work of art.
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UncutDec 17, 2014Lament is a startling, eclectic listen. [Jan 2014, p.72]
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Dec 17, 2014Lament’s strength lies in the music rather than the amount of historical study that’s gone into it, which is just as well: no one ever decided to listen to an album because it was meticulously researched.
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Dec 17, 2014Lament proves itself to be a remarkably effective listen because it is an utterly egoless record; a record that, in binding many stories from all sides, creates a feeling that is ultimately sans-patrie.
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MojoDec 17, 2014One of Neubauten's very best releases. [Jan 2014, p.98]
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Q MagazineDec 17, 2014Its opening five minutes posit the sound of "war machinery" grinding slowly to the point of metallic cacophony, but there are many more intriguing pieces afoot. [Jan 2014, p.122]
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Dec 17, 2014Imaginative adaptations of archival material play off against theoretical pieces to give this intellectually rigorous, uneven, moving record depth and breadth.
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The WireJan 9, 2015There is, in the end, something vaguely nauseating about a bunch of popular entertainers in middle age creating state-supported art inspired by the deaths of countless young men caused by an act of state-subsidised slaughter. [Jan 2015, p.61]