Limited, lined, bolted & screen-printed felt sleeve.
Berlin's Laure Boer unites for a second time with the ever-dependable Kashual Plastik for another typically wide-ranging exploration of experimental electronics and folk aesthetics. So wide ranging is it, in fact, that the record plays much like one of KP's famed compilations, as if the work of multiple artists working independently towards a shared concept. See this not as the product of an unanchored voice, but as a triumph of imagination. In that sense, Les Cités Englouties functions as a engaging purview of the current European underground, uniting drone, noise abrasion, haunted electronics, and chamber folk song in disparate but interconnected ways, a rabbit warren into which to get lost. The effect is somewhat disorientating, a dream logic entwining of Annelies Monsere, Monokultur, Nina Harker and Soccer Committee into its own purgatorial zone, suffuse with the half-light of the magic(k) hours, seductive in the kind of way only a nighttime city like Berlin can be.
