So Ballad Music HQ has really been enjoying the latest record from Apparat The Devils Walk. Dark, pulsating, meditative… it’s keeping the brain pinned together as the horror of 5 hr daylight erm, day is starting to take it’s toll. Imagine lying in a field on a hot night (alternatively, ones bed in a bedroom, lights off, heating on), with lots of twinkling stars and space like things around you (candels, fairy lights etc), and listen in to the tinkering light piano samples across low humms of synths, echoing drums and other weather sounds. It’s sort of dark industrial electro meets post rock. That’ll do. Bravo!

Anyway, it’s an album that keeps getting switched on, and doesn’t get turned off, which is pretty much the criteria to a good record round here. It’s a hard one to explain though. Just seems to sound track our day quite well.

This is the video of track Black Water. Open a window and you can add to the samples of drizzling rain - afterall it’s 2011, and this stuff is all about participation of the fans and whatnot.

General band info is:

Apparat is 1 german fella

He was part of Modeselektor

This is his 4th album

John Peel liked him

He ain’t touring the UK for while but europe, you’re in luck!

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