Surrounding Structures
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80
With an astounding mixing and recording, the ten tracks are rich with a resonant and organic quality, embracing the listener in its full body of analog synths and hammering rhythms.
5y
80
Veik’s new album, Surrounding Structures, is one of juxtapositions, oxymorons that revel in their own disorientation, cold and bleak and yet simultaneously open and welcoming.
5y
70
Surrounding Structures succeeds where other modern-day krautrock albums fail in being unafraid to venture far from the genre for influences and applying them throughout thus achieving that balance between reverence for the past, while remaining relevant and of the now.
5y
Veik - Surrounding Structures
Genre: Post Punk
Country: France
Final Verdict: 59% (Pleasant Album)
Yearly Ranking: 282th / 513
Highlight: Château Guitar
Made me think of:
Grauzone
Depeche Mode
The Fall
Краут-брутализм
Французская команда Veik в конце апреля поразила ухо притязательного слушателя отличной попыткой подружить краут-рок и пост-панк с задумчивой синт-вейв эстетикой. Дебютный альбом под названием Surrounding Structures открывается целым рядом по-своему симпатичных ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Difficult Machinery 4:13 | |
| 2 | Singularism 3:29 | |
| 3 | Political Apathy 5:15 | |
| 4 | Honesty (I Don't Wanna Know) 3:56 | |
| 5 | Life Is a Time Consuming Experience 4:01 | |
| 6 | Château Guitar 4:50 | |
| 7 | Same Old Argument 3:49 | |
| 8 | Surrounding Structures 3:16 | |
| 9 | Downside (I Wanna Know) 6:37 | |
| 10 | Chullachaqui 5:14 |
Total Length: 44 minutes
