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KREISKY
What a contrast: while Kreisky's penultimate album "Blitz" (2018) pushed their traditionally raw band sound toward pop, and their last release, the almost optimistic coming-of-age record "Atlantis" (2021), celebrated youth and naivety with its vibrant cover, the band now presents us with "Adieu Unsterblichkeit"—an exceptionally dark collection of songs. From the pre-released "Was ist das für eine Welt" from the TV crime drama of the same name (in which the band also appeared) through the cannibalistic torch song "Fressen" to the bicycle-track road movie "Die Pedale," which ends in two minutes of monolithic force, these songs capture moments of bitter realization, dark secrets, epiphanies of evil, tipping points into wickedness. "Adieu Unsterblichkeit" is a journey into the heart of darkness and, in a sense, cathartic music for these disastrous times. Once again, it's thrilling how Kreisky unite sharpened art rock, existential fervor, and verbal toxicity in such an overwhelming way that they replace Sunday Mass for the secularized music lover. A new development on "Adieu Unsterblichkeit" is how quickly and emphatically the band can switch registers. On the title track, oscillating between melancholy and self-pity, sprawling pop abstraction and reckless ecstasy stand back-to-back; "Geh mir aus der Sonne" shifts from math rock to flowery sixties arrangements and back again, and "Was ist das für eine Welt" changes gears multiple times over its eight krautrock minutes. The Kreisky Mass is celebrated in classic rock lineup: drums (loud: Klaus Mitter
