[105 ] III - Moderat ( Mute/Monkeytown - 2016 )
I think we don’t have to write any presentation for this super band that just released their third album after a long and exciting wait.
They shown a big maturity earned from the experience of the second album, where the sound and the skills of the two bands, Modeselektor and Apparat, blend perfectly creating a new style, recognizable to all the aficionados.
This album, compared to the second one, is going more in the dark spectrum of the post-minimal electronic music.
The darkness of this album is easy to feel, starting from the first track Eating Hooks, with its tiny and paranoid sounds that fill the background layer of the track, and the addition of the minimal and precise drum set and the wobbling sub bass. This track is really easy to listen to and as much catchy thankful to the vocals. We will find the same feeling through the album following a sinusoid wave path. After the first track we have an idea of the differences between “III” and the first two Moderat’s albums. But they still want to make us dance a bit, so following the wave we reach the top with tracks like Running and Animal Trails where the presence of the rhythm gets more impressive. Especially Animal Trails recall tracks from the first album like 3 minutes of… but more mature and improved.
It’s difficult to improve a product, but for sure Sascha Ring, Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary have enough knowledge to surprise us every time and every album will give us something new without loosing the unique fingerprint that they create with this project.