CLEAN 1973 Orig FAUST - IV KRAUTROCK Psych Prog GEM
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CLEAN 1973 KRAUT PSYCH/PROG ORIGINAL!!!
FAUST
IV
GERMAN - (twin girls) VIRGIN RECORDS - V2 004
RARE & CLEAN ...ORIGINAL 1973 first pressing of one of the great Krautrock albums of the psychedelic underground era...
Easily, the fan favorite FAUST album. "Faust IV" manages to be both experimental and engaging, but accessible enough to draw you in, even at its outer limits. This was Faust's last album of the early period, and their label had insisted they go in a different direction. This work is definitely easier on the ear than some of their other work (notable "Faust Tapes" ('73)), but is still exciting. Faust has written this off as not essentially 'them' and it is not included in their boxset. Despite their complaints, it is a great album.
"Krautrock" is a churning, tumbling trance rock honoring the term that was henceforth applied (with gross generalization) to a wave of experimental German bands from the early and mid-70s. This one clocks in at around 12 minutes, and mines similar territory as Can, with washes of electronic sound thrown into a rhythmic blender, set to a repetitive spin cycle. However, this isn't quite the ambient moonshake of the other band, but rather a boisterous, almost punkish rock mantra. Julian Cope calls it "fuzzy", and that about sums it up.
"The Sad Skinhead" still contains awesome marimba-like passages to a reggae beat after the yelling that opens the song.There are funny lyrics about being a skinhead like "Going places,smashing faces,what else could we do."
Without a doubt, "Jennifer", with its simple, repetitive lyric, throbbing amped up bass-line, cacophonous electronics mid way through and acoustic 'saloon' piano closing is the album's masterpiece. "Just a Second" begins like a standard hard rocker, and knowing Faust, soon turns into more space-rock play, imitating the sounds of a burbling river before returning to the rock. "Picnic on a Frozen River" starts off with an annoying, though catchy rock melody, before descending into glorified 'Krautrock' improvisation with excellent complex bends and twists. The band really synergizes on this piece. "Giggy Smile" shows off Faust's large folk inflections, and very accessibly for this band. "Lauft...Heisst..." serves as an interlude with spacey atmospheric sprays. "It's a Bit of Pain" is an unexpected finish to the album, a good one with its dreamy, ambling tempo swinging from laid back to blood curdling in the twinkling of an eye and showing they have a bite...there's cool heavily distorted guitar solo accents at the end.
FAUST IV is the diversity of Krautrock and they were unashamedly dissimilar to any other band using asymmetrical time signatures and peculiar instrumentation. Dark, compelling music that is inaccessible at times, but important in changing musical directions and defining Krautrock.
1. Krautrock — 11:47
2. The Sad Skinhead — 2:43
3. Jennifer — 7:11
4. Just A Second (Starts Like That!) — 3:35
5. Picnic on a Frozen River (Deuxieme Tableux) — 7:45
6. Giggy Smile — 4:28
7. Laüft... Heißt Das es Laüft Oder es Kommt Bald... Laüft — 3:40
8. It's a Bit of a Pain — 3:08
CONDITION: The cover is near "EX" (excellent) = pretty clean overall with really only light spider web creases at a couple corners, a touch of light previous use, though well taken care of soon to be 40 year old relic of the prime Krautrock era. No split seams, no writing.
The vinyl is all shiny clean M- over both sides...play graded smooth and clear...with clean Virgin labels...
keeper copy!
A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTIBLES!
SEE: SELLERS OTher items for more & more of similar cool sounds for "head" people...
EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING
All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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