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2017 reissue, 2×12″ LP, PIAS Recordings.
In recent months, PIAS has re-released numerous albums from Bohren & Der Club Of Gore, a cult post-hardcore band that found fame by developing their own distinctive brand of “doom-ridden jazz music”. The latest album to get the reissue treatment is 2005’s Geisterfaust. It originally appeared three years after Black Earth, a macabre and unsettling full-length that remains their most celebrated work. The five epic tracks that make up Geisterfaust are a little lighter in tone, though still thoroughly absorbing and cloaked in the band’s usual hazy atmospheres. At times the music tends towards the melancholic, with 20-minute opener “Zeigefinger” offering a near perfect blend of slowly evolving ambient jazz motifs and foreboding drum hits. – Juno
