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Faust have been around for over 40 years. Since 2007, the line-up of the Krautrock legend has comprised founder members Jean-Hervé Peron and Zappi Diermaier, the English musician James Johnston, founder of the brutish blues rockers Gallon Drunk and long-standing member of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, plus the English painter, filmmaker, author and musician Geraldine Swayne.
On Something Dirty the creativity and musical ideas of these four personalities coalesce into a perfect symbiosis of sound. It is at once hypnotic, repetitive, melodic, exhilarating, psychedelic, menacing, dadaist, ethereal. Johnstons guitar saws its way through Diermaiers archaic beats, harmonically enriched by Perons powerful bass and Swaynes psychedelic keyboards. Time and again, Faust revisit their avant-garde roots, experimenting with voices and unusual instruments. (A flamethrower and goat hooves can be detected in their arsenal of sonic sources.) Best of all, however, Faust have succeeded in reproducing the raw energy and roughness of their live performances on something dirty. Breathtaking stuff Full UK press campaign, ads in Mojo. The Wire etc
Essential facts: Faust: formed in Hamburg in 1970, one of the main protagonists of Krautrock. Successful overseas, viewed with suspicion at home. Now revered worldwide as pioneers of avant-garde rock music Band line-up: Jean Hervé Peron, Zappi W. Diermaier (both founder members), James Johnston (Gallon Drunk, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds), Geraldine Swayne (Bender, Bad Servant) Available on CD (digipak), 180g vinyl
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