Lava

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Stefan Ackerman and Bruno Kramm have been recording together as Das Ich for 15 years now, and their sound remains a bracing (if not entirely original) fusion of EBM and industrial influences. What does set them apart from the dark electronica pack is their praiseworthy insistence on singing in German; early on, they seem to have absorbed from their colleagues the important lesson that nothing undermines one's ability to project an aura of menace like goofy syntax. (And nothing strengthens that aura quite as effectively as the sound of German lyrics.) That said, it would be nice if more of the songs on their 14th album were musically distinctive -- the chugging beats, synthetic strings and growling vocals are all pretty much par for the course, but seldom rise above that level. Notable exceptions include "Tot im Kopf" ("Dead in the Head"), which starts out funky and spare before gradually descending into chaos and despair, and a nice remix of "Vulkan," provided courtesy of :wumpscut:. The disc also includes two CD-ROM video tracks. ~ Rick Anderson