Schwefelgelb - Dahinter das Gesicht [a+w XI]

Industrial sonic landscapes driven through urgent rhythms and an atmosphere that lingers in the dusky hue of the nefarious, Schwefelgelb, are EBM personified. Immoveable 4/4 kicks, marching on a determined rhythm accent metallic synth lines that make up the beating pulse of the tracks. Schwefelgelb might merely be dealing in EBM platitudes on this release, but their experience in the genre certainly shows. There’s no subtleties trying to engage with the listener, and everything operates at a corporeal level with Dahinter Das Gesicht. It’s instinctive and primordial and refuses to pander to anything other than a dance floor. Industrial percussive elements join shouts of “pressure” on tracks like Focus and what sets Schwefelgelb apart from their peers is the way they are able to progressive through a song , switching through different parts, without losing that essential drive of the track. Where music like this can often get “loopy”, Schwefelgelb show that it doesn’t have to be, and they expertly manipulate their parts around progressive forms that keep the tracks moving.
In, The Formant