MALESCH

Agitation Free had apparently gone on a tour through Cyprus, Greece and Egypt before recording this album, which explains the occasional Middle Eastern-tinged sample they add here and there to the music, but at their core they are a very capable Krautrock band, with the music ranging from synthesiser-dominated cosmic calm to full band freakouts. Beginning with the band cajoled by a pilot into performing on You Play For Us Now and ending with the brief Rucksturz (whose ending I find is rather abrupt), the band stay in a psychedelic mode throughout the album. It's all good stuff, and sufficiently diverting that I'd say it's one of the better freakout albums to come out from the Krautrock scene, provided that you have an appetite for a big load of guitar noodling.