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  • Artist(s): Jean Hervé Peron, Werner Diermaier
  • Summary: The 13th full-length release for the Krautrock band with Jean-Hervé Peron, Werner Diermaier and Maxime Manac'h features guest appearances from Jürgen Engler, Barbara Manning, and Ysanne Spevack.
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Fish
Light switch, yellow fever, crawling up your bathroom wall Singing psychedelic praises to the depths of the china bowl You've got venom in your... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. Positive: 7 out of 8
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  1. Aug 21, 2017
    80
    This is perhaps Faust's most solid and coherent body of work since their 1990s resurrection. It roars with sadness and anger at a world's squandered opportunities.
  2. May 25, 2017
    80
    T the album feels like a coherent work rather than something assembled in different locations by a disparate cast of individuals. It also demonstrates that Péron and Diermaier remain fearless and vital, over 45 years after co-founding the band's original incarnation.
  3. May 25, 2017
    80
    After the brutal old school motorik of Lights Flicker (Manning, sax and guitar dogfighting over Zappi’s hypnotic vamp) and Heron reciting over the oceanic swell of Fish, no doubts are left that Faust’s unique creative flame still burns as bright as their social conscience.
  4. Jun 16, 2017
    80
    Back in the mid-1970s Faust asserted both ownership and ironic distance with the song “Krautrock;” here, they show that they can still wax motorik if the situation requires it.
  5. Uncut
    May 25, 2017
    70
    It doesn't all work ... but a guest appearance on voice from singer-songwriter Barbara Manning kicks things into the next gear. [Jul 2017, p.30]
  6. The Wire
    Aug 8, 2017
    70
    With all this pent-up anger channelled into a nicely weird record, faUSt call their thrown-together team effort of improv and agitation “enlightened dilletantism”. As a jumbled response to unfolding chaos on Planet Earth, Fresh Air delivers a welcome jolt of energy. [Jun 2017, p.64]
  7. Q Magazine
    Jun 6, 2017
    60
    The band make a powerful case for letting it all hang out. [Aug 2017, p.103]

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