Ulrich Schnauss - Goodbye
What a weekend. I hope everyone had a good weekend as well. Sorry about the scattershot updates through the past week and the start of this one as well. I am shooting for normal updates for the rest of this week. I’ve been in sort of a funk to where I didn’t want to really write about anything and nothing was really making feel compelled enough to write about it on here anyway. I guess I could say it’s some sort of dry spell, who knows.
Anyway, for the belated start of this week is the latest album from German ambient/electronic artist Ulrich Schnauss entitled Goodbye. I wasn’t really familiar with Schnauss’ work until his 2003 release A Strangely Isolated Place, which ended up being one of my favorite albums to come out that year along with it being possibly one of the best albums ever to just cruise home with the windows down on a warm summer night. It’s absolutely the perfect music for that in my opinion. Schnauss isn’t some newcomer to the ambient/chill/electronic genre; he has been releasing material since 1995 under various different names. It wasn’t until his 2001 debut Far Away Trains Passing By that he began to release music under his own name. Over that span he has become a fairly popular figure amongst fans of the genre.
On Goodbye Schnauss continues in the direction of the lush sounding layering of keys and synth that made his last album such an amazing listen. It’s pretty evident that he has a large amount of respect and love for shoegaze, as the blissful and melodic qualities of it are often very visible within his work. Schnauss’ work is often compared to MBV; however Schnauss himself has developed a Kevin Shields like obsession with manipulating and adding countless numbers of layers to create the serene melodies that are commonly found throughout Goodbye. And to no real surprise, Schnauss’ production work has taken a nice leap forward on this album as well. Everything is incredibly crisp and the album soars along effortlessly because of it. It’s really a wonderful sounding album.
Goodbye was easily one of my most anticipated albums for this year, although there are still a number of albums that are yet to come out that I am eagerly waiting on. I’d feel very fortunate if they all delivered in the way Goodbye has. Schnauss has matched his last album and quite possibly surpassed it. If you’re already a fan, then Goodbye will definitely not disappoint.
Ulrich Schnauss – Never Be The Same [MP3]
Ulrich Schnauss – Stars [MP3]
The album will be out here in the states on Domino come July 10th. For the time being it came be pre-ordered over at Amazon. If you’re a fan of ambient/chill with a very blissful/shoegazy feel to it then I can’t recommend Goodbye or any of Schnauss’ work enough. Do pick this up when it comes out.
Anyway, for the belated start of this week is the latest album from German ambient/electronic artist Ulrich Schnauss entitled Goodbye. I wasn’t really familiar with Schnauss’ work until his 2003 release A Strangely Isolated Place, which ended up being one of my favorite albums to come out that year along with it being possibly one of the best albums ever to just cruise home with the windows down on a warm summer night. It’s absolutely the perfect music for that in my opinion. Schnauss isn’t some newcomer to the ambient/chill/electronic genre; he has been releasing material since 1995 under various different names. It wasn’t until his 2001 debut Far Away Trains Passing By that he began to release music under his own name. Over that span he has become a fairly popular figure amongst fans of the genre.On Goodbye Schnauss continues in the direction of the lush sounding layering of keys and synth that made his last album such an amazing listen. It’s pretty evident that he has a large amount of respect and love for shoegaze, as the blissful and melodic qualities of it are often very visible within his work. Schnauss’ work is often compared to MBV; however Schnauss himself has developed a Kevin Shields like obsession with manipulating and adding countless numbers of layers to create the serene melodies that are commonly found throughout Goodbye. And to no real surprise, Schnauss’ production work has taken a nice leap forward on this album as well. Everything is incredibly crisp and the album soars along effortlessly because of it. It’s really a wonderful sounding album.
Goodbye was easily one of my most anticipated albums for this year, although there are still a number of albums that are yet to come out that I am eagerly waiting on. I’d feel very fortunate if they all delivered in the way Goodbye has. Schnauss has matched his last album and quite possibly surpassed it. If you’re already a fan, then Goodbye will definitely not disappoint.
Ulrich Schnauss – Never Be The Same [MP3]
Ulrich Schnauss – Stars [MP3]
The album will be out here in the states on Domino come July 10th. For the time being it came be pre-ordered over at Amazon. If you’re a fan of ambient/chill with a very blissful/shoegazy feel to it then I can’t recommend Goodbye or any of Schnauss’ work enough. Do pick this up when it comes out.
Labels: electronic, shoegaze
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