Deeply romantic, dreamstate positioned third long player from German duo Schatterau, which expands their once sinister sounding post-industrial palette into the lesser explored haunted realms of the Brannten Schnure/Läuten Der Seele Gespensterland. Indeed, the fragmentary combination of tape loop hiss and decay, minimal percussion, distopian synths, and alternating foreboding/dreamy vocals feels closely aligned with Läuten Der Seele's collaboration with Novy Svet's Jota Solo on Unterhaltungen mit Larven und Überresten, in its way a kind of contemporary rephrasing of krautrock experimentalism that wonders what Popul Vuh might have ended up like if they'd arrived post 1977. Moreover, I see this as part of a distinctly European type of music, one you can trace back through labels like Sky and Tapioca, and artists like Klaus Schulze, Ash Ra, Besombes - Rizet et al, and then filtered through the lens of (post-)punk ideology so that it feels less institutional. I suppose what I'm describing there, then, is the NWW List - as such, it's no faint praise to say you could imagine Wir gingen durch leere Stunden finding a spot amongst its annals.
FFO: Lauten der Seele, Treasury of Puppies, F Ingers, Popol Vuh, Better Corners
