Ignatz "Can I Go Home Now?"

Country: Belgium
Sub Genre: Krautrock
Label: Fonal Records
Release date: June 3, 2013
Tracklist: 
1. I Need A Good Night's Sleep
2. Weep Weep Weep
3. Awake
4. Strange Way Ahead
5. My Love Is Dazed
6. Certainity
7. Rolling Bones
8. My Trip To Somewhere
9. Abandon The Night
10. She Gets All That She Wants
11. A Hard Day
12. 32 Years Ago

Line-up: 
Bram Devens - all instruments

Description/Reviews: 

Belgium based artist Bram Devens uses Ignatz as his alter-ego, and comes armed with his own pile of bricks; sparse, emotive songs born of the human condition, wrapped in effects, corroded by tape, driven forth by improvisation and spontaneity.
‘Can I Go Home Now?’ sees Devens shift his focus toward more exclusively song-based compositions, cut largely from unabridged electric and acoustic guitar. Almost diaristic in tone, Devens’ personal experiences echo throughout the albums artwork and the title itself, as well as the music.
Ignatz’s songs stem from a familiar stripped folk framework, with Devens’ delivery recalling the louche primitivism of V.U. or Henry Flynt - but these songs sound inverted, cast adrift, their cool touch belying a stymied heat beneath the surface. Where Devens’ fretwork is adorned, it is executed with a refined coarseness. Autonomous loops entwine each other. Songs brush past percussion, bass notes, or a scant keyboard motif. A voice recedes from the heart of the song into a dislocated, cracked drawl. And yet if Ignatz does occasionally recall the ghost of Jandek, there are moments of warmth and beauty, as sunlight glistens on the ice.

Media/Samples 
Abandon The Night
I Need A Good Night's Sleep

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