Rite Time

When bands go on for a long enough time, their music can wind up coming across as self parody. “Rite Time” takes that a step forward. It sounds like the anti-Can from the mirror dimension.

Your average Can song consists of a repeating groove and melody atop of wich is thrown a seemingly random assortment of musical ideas. It shouldn’t work, but it does. This album shows what happens when it doesn’t work.

Part of the problem is I don’t like what Malcom Mooney is ... read more

A piece of shit reunion album, featuring the original five members. Malcolm Mooney still sounds like he's retching up little bugs (preferably beetles) all over the studio floor. The other guys have gotten older budweiser. And boringer. They certainly sound like they're having a good time, but the music sounds more like a Talking Heads reunion than a Can reunion. The "grooves" are stupid grooves. Grooves anybody could write in 30 seconds. And there's nothing "progressive," ... read more

how the fucking fuck did this band make the best krautrock ever and then made hoolah hoolah

Mooney is back and gives a… decent performance? I don’t know — at times I actually find it enjoyable. Eh, worse offenders include the lack of progression on some of these tracks, the ’80s influence, and the album cover. I don’t hate it, but I don’t enjoy it in a “so-bad-it’s-good” sense either. For the most part it grooves along fine and offers enough strangeness to not be a complete bore.