"Islands come to me, and I know you so well..."
The dense synth bass groove of "Islands Song" by German artful duo AUA (Fabian Bremer and Henrik Eichmann) pushed by a chill smashed beat, drenched in surreal dreams and featuring the haunting vocals of Anika Henderson (Anika, Exploded View) exudes a sublime ethereal kind of beauty offset by a dark center. That dark center expressed in surprising musical shapes and surprising musical diversions creates an avant-garde sense of uneasiness. I absolutely love the synth lead sound that feels like a collision of mellotron, a violin and a theremin. The glacial oddness and whimsy suggests a soundtrack to a midnight movie sculpted by an amalgam of visionaries like Alexander Kluge, Tim Burton, David Lynch, Edgar Reitz and Alejandro Jodorowsky.
“Islands Song” is the first single of German duo AUA’s second album “The Damaged Organ” to be released by Berlin-based label Crazysane Records on January 21st, 2022.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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AUA’s debut is an eclectic mix of explosive krautrock-driven beats, Carpenter-esque arpeggios, and surf guitar sounds, all embedded within the darker version of a ’60s lo-fi pop record. Their 2020 debut “I Don’t Want It Darker” is an album of contrasts: while the lyrics on the duo’s debut full-length establish a world of laconic stories on the verge of self-abandonment, their songs burst forth with creative exuberance—the result of a handful of sessions spent in the wilderness, marked by the joy of spontaneous experimentation. AUA’s full-length follow-up, “The Damaged Organ”, will be released on January 21st, 2022.
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