vendredi 22 janvier 2021

Die Schiefe Bahn

 

After Moron and Liiek here is another band from the Allee Der Kosmonauten (ADK) Berlin scene where can be found a couple of familiar faces.
There is the singer, Lisa, who has been involved in numerous projects during the past decade including Aus and the new Die Letzten Ecken (The Last Corners) but also the more indie-rock I Might Be Wrong and Zelf and then there are Anne Sophie who plays the drums in Liiek and Benzin (and plays bass here) and Jana behind the drums.
So where are these experienced musicians taking us now ? 
  
   
 Die Schiefe Bahn's (the slippery slope or the crooked track) 6-track tape was released on Billo (as many ADK bands) in late November 2020.
 If you are a bit familiar with this page you may know that I am not really into dark and cold music and that's why I was not seduced at all by Die Letzten Ecken (way too "cold" for me).
Well Die Schiefe Bahn are clearly splashing around in the post-punk pool as well but have managed to save just enough "heat" to keep me interested, and so to be featured on this page.

 
Heavy bass lines, minimal drumming, clear but discreet guitar parts, distant-quite-cold vocals and absolutely NO synth... here is the recipe of the "coldest" kind of post-punk I can enjoy... And yes in the end I have to say that I find it quite enjoyable.
It's probably going to sound weird to the German speakers who are reading me right now (if any) but there is something perfect in their language for this kind of music. I don't know, it's just the way the harsh consonants and "cold" accent sound to my ear...
 
As I was saying I am not an expert in German new-wave/post-punk, but to me Die Schiefe Bahn really sounds as if they had just landed from a time warp from an 80s Berlin club show to the present day (and the weird, but discreet, old school sound effects on Flammen and Pflanze make the comparison even more vivid). 

In an nutshell it's a short and enjoyable German post-punk tape that even a guy like me can listen to from time to time so... give it a try! 
 
 
  You can listen to Die Schiefe Bahn in Rien à Faire #18.
 
 
 
 

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