Die Bunker – Peut-Etre Qu’il N’y A Plus Rien?
LP review
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Eirkti keeps up giving a treat to musical gourmets with re-releasing tape stuff as vinyl LPs. The work this review is dedicated to isn’t an exception; it’s a work, recorded in 1983 (with a bonus track of 1984) of the French coldwave band Die Bunker. Actually, there’re many comparisons between this band and Clair Obscur. In spite of the fact that there’re many relations, I’m not sure if these comparisons are that reasonable. Die Bunker is really a band for those ones who have regrets that coldwave bands often don’t sound as Clair Obscur of “Smurf in Gulag” period, with its industrial approach, but Clair Obscur never had so much raw and “bunker” sound, underlined by its minimalism, from the very beginning till nowadays. And there was no reason to sound so for Christophe Demarthe and his band while “Die Bunker” has it as a “label thing”. “Peut-Etre Qu’il N’y A Plus Rien?” doesn’t consist of very different stuff, all the stuff is done in quite similar manner: there’s raw and obscure synth coldwave / industrial sound, with this “damp” and oppressive atmosphere which doesn’t give enough space for musical insanity. Of course it might seem, as minus, but it actually doesn’t: this approach seems the only possibility for the release to not to sound boring and to make even the very long “Kalachnikov” sound charming with its obscurity and passive desperation. In conclusion, this work isn’t a one which can sound on some parties or so, it’s much more for home listening and for those individuals who find attraction in drowning in the obscurest chilling depths of senses. If you’re one of them, this LP is a 100% “must have” for you.
Grade: 9/10
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