Thursday, October 20, 2022

Neue Planet. Der - Area Fifty​ Fun (2022)

The second album from this band from Germany.

he band is a quintet with a lineup of drums, bass and guitars.

The band debuted with a self-titled EP back in 2016 before they released the Magrathea Erwacht album two years later. An album I quite liked.

The music on this almost forty minutes long album is a mix of krautrock, post-rock, jazz and spacerock.

The band has chosen not to follow the post-rock and spacerock flow. They have instead chosen to create go into the forest and create their own path.

The half-acoustic jazz guitars brings memories of Django Reinhardt to the forefront. There is not much of this jazz. But it is enough of it to really give this album an own identity and it's own colour and sound.

The music is on the too light and fluffy side of the spectrum. Hence my reservations. The music is somewhere between decent and good too. Nevertheless, the band has both class and quality. It is an band well worth following. 

2.5 points




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