Bill Youngman At Juno Download

Review: As rough and grizzly as the underbelly of the German capital's late night culture can be, Youngman's latest missive for Killekill doesn't try to offer a sanitised version of electronic music. Indeed, the opposite is the case on the abstract "Wespe". There, a cacophony of half-heard noises and feedback slip and slide over broken, gnarled rhythms. The title track is more dance floor focused, with a similarly dark, grungy undercurrent contained by firing claps, rolling snares and an angular, insistent arrangement. By contrast, "Centrumcircuit" sounds almost sanitised, as Youngman drops shuffling 808s as a backdrop for dramatic strings and acid lines that climax seductively.