Faust - C'est Com...Com...Compliqué (Album)
Sounds like krautrock, smells like krautrock, tastes like krautrock. Must be krautrock. What is krautrock I hear you ask (well at least those born after 1980). Krautrock is the name for a genre of music originating in Germany in the 60s and 70s. Akin to other genres such as prog rock, and post-psychedelia, some of krautrocks most famous proponents include Can, Neu! and our dear friends Faust.
C'est Com...Com...Compliqué is the 15th studio album from Faust who formed in the early 70, releasing albums through the 70s, with a brief hiatus in the 80s and a re-emergence in the mid to late 90s. The album kicks off well with Kundalini Tremolos, a meandering spiralling track that draws you in hypnotically to a place of amber hued light and haze and the occasional hallucination (or is that just me?).
We're taken further along this dream like journey by the next track, with the added bonus of lyrics, hurrah! (I have no idea what they're saying though, it sounds a bit like a call to arms, but lets pretend it's something nicer). This great ambient soundtrack to life continues, but not uninterrupted, some of the tracks aren't as easy to listen to. Bonjour Giaocchino, En Veux-Tu Des Effets, En Voilà, and the title track C'est Com...Com...Compliqué. These tracks are not the quietly rambling soundscapes of the opening tracks, they posses something darker and more dangerous, and equally enthralling.
If you haven't really heard much krautrock before, this would be a good taster to wet the appetite. If you're a krautrock fan, I can't guarantee there's much more you would hear here than in the countless releases before this, but I guess you never know.
