Iso­la­ti­ons­ge­mein­schaft – s/t LP

Beschreibung

No, Insta­gram didn’t put out a vinyl album just yet, this I.G. stands for Iso­la­ti­ons­ge­mein­schaft and this is their debut! They play a very Ger­man-sound­ing form of rest­less cold-wave, which is reasonable con­side­ring the duo’s Ber­lin resi­dence. Syn­ths and drum machi­nes lead the path for­ward out of a neon-lit ’80s bun­ker into, well, a very simi­lar-loo­king ’20s bun­ker. I’m remin­ded of Voice Farm, Vono, and that brief inter­sec­tion whe­re NDW bands revol­ving around the Zick­Zack label encoun­te­red the Sky Records syn­th sce­ne that pre­ce­ded it, a nice pai­ring of ’70s syn­th wor­ship and ’80s post-punk para­noia. I.G. are cer­tain­ly clo­ser to the post-punk para­noia side of things, with many of the­se songs sound­ing as though they’re being tail­ed by a dark figu­re shrou­ded in a long trench coat, even if it turns out it’s only one of tho­se Drab Majes­ty mimes loo­king to score par­ty drugs. A gen­re exer­cise for sure, com­ple­te with some subt­le Kraft­werk rips here and the­re (let the elec­tro­nic group who has never rip­ped Kraft­werk cast the first stone), but it’s plea­sant enough, or should I say unp­lea­sant enough, that Iso­la­ti­ons­ge­mein­schaft recei­ves a syn­th-wave pas­sing gra­de if not high honors. – Yel­low Green Red

01. Blind­flug
02. FFP
03. Gelände
04. König
05. Schockstarre
06. Flexibel
07. Klick Sent
08. Ausklang