Tobias Siebert pushes his dystopia rock even further into the dark basement.
If you hear EXCITATION enough times in a row, everything becomes one. The dysthymically booming guitar riffs, the threatening bass, the heartbeat drums, above that Tobias Siebert’s voice scratching the edge of despair and the current times. You look around, there is crisis and war everywhere, and you close your eyes – and Klez.e play the coherent soundtrack. It’s about “the borders within”, about “cannons that thunder”, about the very private bubbles, and Andreas Spechtl gets his props – and all of that just in the title song, a seven-minute monster of everyday depression.
Since the Cure bow DESINTEGRATION (2017), Siebert, who also happens to be And The Golden Choir, whose last release was six years ago, and a successful producer, has left Berlin and taken up residence and studio in a Western Pomeranian village with barely 500 inhabitants.
There is also love in this world, but even that is just a last detour before final despair
ARREGUNG now penetrates even further into the dark abysses of the present, into which DISINTEGRATION had already sunk quite deeply, songs are called “Düster” or “Tortur”, protagonists suspected of being autobiographers “simply fall over in the front garden”, they remember one submerged Berlin, where even the legendary Gothic disco Linientreu is still open and the Oberbaumbrücke is not yet a party Berlin-Disneyland, but the end of the world.
Yes, there is also love in this world, but even that is just a last detour before final despair: “I only want you in all sadness,” sings Siebert in the still comparatively tidy “Mr. Dead & Mrs. Free,” and it’s not just the guitars that get lost in the seemingly endless reverberation space.
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