De Klok - Stop the Clock

Anachronistic post-punk styled, no-wave-ish manipulations that almost had me fooled into thinking it was some recently unearthed lost relic from a former golden age. De Klok is in fact the work of international trio T. Delaunay, D.L. Byrne and J. Warmenbol, all with previous in various acts of varying renown from the European underground, and Stop the Clock a set of spontaneously recorded tracks first released on cassette by Simple Music Experience midway through last year. There's some fanciful accompanying verbiage that imagines the players as a kind of venturing set of controversial scientists, and regardless of the purpose that serves, there's no doubting the testtube experimentalism being worked at here, some tracks clocking in at under a minute, some stretching past five, each put together in a fairly primitive fashion from skittering drum machine patterns, dubby bass guitar rumblings and dulcet vocal incantations. We're very much in early Cabaret Voltaire territory, right down to the latent paranoia and obvious distrust for power, a tendency you might also find existent in contemporaries CIA Debutante and Giulio Erasmus. If it feels haphazard and wreckless, than I imagine that's entirely intentional, three likeminded agitators with little concern for decorum given over to mutant impulses. It's a fine perspective to thrust upon the world.