Pfaff

I received the Pfaff album just before Christmas and it was so fantastic that it made my top 20 list of the year. It seems cruel to have not mentioned it in any other form though, so this MP3 from the release finally helps me resolve the situation.

The actual package is surprisingly unique - a book of poetry titled Bleek printed in true That Dam fashion. Hiding in the back cover is a CD. The first 15 minutes or so is the album Berliner Blick, and it’s simply stunning. Yes, that’s eight tracks in 15 minutes. In one respect I hate that it is so short, but in the other, there is so much energy and passion plugged forcefully into that quarter of an hour that by the time it ends it feels like a 45-minute work out.

Fuzzy guitars, wild drumming, screaming vocals, Bas is a one-man demolition crew backed (I assume still) by two drummers. Other journalists like to throw up a Pixies influence and I hate to do the same but I can see what they mean. At least if Frank Black was still capable of something as violently brilliant as Berliner Blick, which I don’t think he is.

If that wasn’t enough, another 10 songs follow, making up the second album Chi fa da se, fa per tre. It’s interesting. Not as intensively captivating, but overall it’s great value and massive amounts of fun.

Also check out Berliner Blick (Relapse).

Steven McCarron - 07-02-2005

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