I don’t think I’ve made it clear enough over time –
German Army is here for us. Maybe now more than ever.
Because, you know – the pandemic. The racial
injustice. The government. German Army is as fed up as we are. They always have
been. Always will be.
So their release schedule is, shall we say, robust. And here is another in a long
line, Blending Landscapes, which, if I’d
have to venture a guess, was made with an ear toward interaction, inclusion,
forgiveness. But not without a healthy dose of introspection and
reconciliation. No Blending Landscapes without
either of those.
That brings us to the “blending” itself – GeAr’s
electro-smears are out in full force on Blending
Landscapes, featuring darkwave pulsers, electro bangers, enveloping clouds
of trance, and organic vaporwave, all feeding off each other, all bleeding
through track limit distinctions in an inky river of curdled code. Or maybe it’s
the black blood of our diseased culture. Either way, it’s gross, thick, liquid,
and moving.
GeAr excels at finding the common denominator
between people and cultures and highlighting and ridiculing the perceived
differences, rendering them laughably ridiculous. Here they do us one better by
peeling back the skin of our faces and revealing the bone-white skulls
underneath. The common denominator is anatomy! We all have skulls.
And after all that, after all the written investigation,
in the end it’s only proper to grab the nearest tape deck and zone out for a decently
long time to this, letting Blending
Landscapes infiltrate the pleasure centers of your brain. Also the thinking
centers, and the empathy centers, and the disillusionment centers, and the
dissatisfaction centers … you get the picture.
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