MINAMI DEUTSCH - With Dim Light CD

Highly recommended.

CD digipak (vinyl currently out-of-print)

The press blurb suggests that these are psych freaks who like techno and there is indeed a pulverising pulse to the tracks but the open two pieces in particular are very melodic and remind me more than anything of Pell Mell. The band have a handy method of churning kraut rock round and round for seemingly ever then launching into a wondrous guitar break. The best example of this is on 'I've Seen a UFO' which spins round like Cavern of Anti Matter before shards of guitars both emotive and jagged come to the fore. They have the tight nit minimalism of the sort of band who have studied at the altar of Neu but there's more colour and life in here than in most of the kraut/fuzz racket we hear with spangling guitars blending beautifully with the sleek rhythms and odd dislocated vocals not far from the surface.