Ratatat - 'Germany To Germany' (XL)
4/5
By: Thomas Hannan
Eventually, this got us hooked. At first however, the electronically generated little noises and the meandering guitar riffs seem to be fighting in different corners, struggling for their space in the song, taking it in turns to dominate the other. It seemed undecided, messy, and uncomfortable.
Two minutes in though, it peaks - in an allied sound collage of all that preceded it; the factors that shouldn't work somehow combine, without the aid of anything recognisable as a person behind any of it, into something magically eye-opening. It hints at being epic, but just about keeps its feet on the ground.
'Germany To Germany' doesn't take very long or, indeed, do that much at all - just enough, and nothing more. But it's a brief interchange and then merging of twiddling, brazen little guitar riffs and perversely ambient keyboard sounds that serves to both soothe and intrigue a mind weary of music that doesn't even dare to take you places.
Artists in this article: Ratatat
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