{"id":39466,"date":"2021-12-31T15:18:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T14:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/?p=39466"},"modified":"2022-04-11T15:10:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T13:10:51","slug":"vlimmer-nebenkorper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/en\/vlimmer-nebenkorper\/","title":{"rendered":"Vlimmer – Nebenk\u00f6rper"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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I did not want to say goodbye to this year without writing a few lines on the first album by Vlimmer<\/b>. Alexander Leonard Donat, the German musician behind this constantly changing project, released more than twenty EPs before doing the big long play step, so nobody can say that he wasn\u2019t ready. Today, finally we are reviewing Nebenk\u00f6rper,<\/i>\u00a0released in vinyl, cassette and CD on Alexander\u2019s own label Blackjack Illuminist Records<\/span><\/a>. If our days were longer, we would like to keep more up to date with their releases, but sadly we do as much as we can. And sometimes even less.<\/span><\/p>

Nebenk\u00f6rper<\/i> is not an album easy to classify. Alexander Leonard, is an avid listener of music and he is also part of projects such as Distance Dealer<\/b>, Fir Cone<\/b> and a few more, where he plays a lot of different styles. With Vlimmer, he mixes post-punk, shoegaze, post-rock, metal and darkwave.<\/span><\/p>

\u201cFarbenm\u00fcde\u201d is the intro to this hallucinating journey. Here you can already taste the disturbing atmospheres that are present in all the records, comparable in a way to those that Vukovar<\/b> so masterfully create, although I am not sure that Alexander Leonard has ever listened to them. Vlimmer<\/b> show their cards in \u201cFensteraus\u201d: frenetic tribal rhythms, voices full of effects and scary synth lines. The vocal part makes me think of Mr. Bungle<\/b>, don\u2019t ask me why, while the music has some influences of post-rock. A sonic attack that will take you by surprised every moment. \u201cRestfall\u201d can be described as some stranger The Cure<\/b> with the same romanticism but with not so clear intentions. \u201cMeter\u201d has a more conventional sound and could be a potential hit in another world. The sound reminds me of late works by HEALTH.<\/b>\u00a0\u201cMinusgesicht\u201d is a dark ballad from another dimension.\u00a0\u201cI.P.A\u201d starts in a more darkwave fashion to continue through less explored paths. \u201cAd Astra\u201d is a powerful and scary song, with quite fast percussions, saturated sound and great moments of sonic chaos.\u00a0\u201cWangendruck\u201d is another track difficult to describe, I would just say that it\u2019s truly hallucinating. \u201cKartenwarten\u201d is again, a slow track, perfect for a walk through a dark cemetery in a cold winter night. \u201cKron\u201d is, instead, the hardest composition with industrial sounds and a guitar that fight for a place inside the sonic maelstrom of the track. \u201cNebenbei\u201d puts an end to the album, with a short but really intense composition.<\/span><\/p>

For those who say that there is nothing new under the sun, well, here\u2019s Vlimmer<\/b>. Deliciously weird.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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