We’re supposed to be taking a seasonal break from writing about new music, but there have been a few releases in the last couple of weeks that I really wanted to feature, and this is likely the last of them. This won’t be an extended review, but that is no reflection on the album’s quality (ie. it’s really good).
Late last month we featured a great split release from Lung Cycles and German Error Message via Lily Tapes and Discs. Hot on the heels of that release, German Error Message (aka Paul Kintzing) is back with a brand new album entitled Haunts.
As usual with GEM, you can take your pick of descriptions (folk, bedroom pop, experimental, etc) and really get no closer to describing the sound. I still like the line in the blurb of the split EP I mentioned earlier, which described the sound as, “densely-layered and blanket-thick bedroom folk”. It’s sort-of-intimate and sort-of-sad and has that lonely lo-fi buzz that makes it feel DIY and heartfelt and real.
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Haunts is available on a lovely turquoise cassette tape via Furious Hooves. You can also download the albumon a pay-what-you-want basis via the German Error Message Bandcamp page.