Dÿse – Lieder Sind Brüder Der Revolution
1. Zebramann
2. Festung
3. Treppe
4. Trick
5. Dysenfischdyse
6. Music
7. Shop Sui
8. Supermacheeyeon
9. Krankenduft
10. Baubaubau
11. Han Georg
For you astute readers (and is there any other kind of Soundshock reader?), you’ll know that German’s musical output has an anarchic and eccentric undercurrent: from the 70’s Kosmische (not “Krautrock”, please) movement spawned by the likes of Can and Neu! through to Rammstein’s showmanship and Atari Teenage Riot’s fearsome binary assault.
Into the fray step Dÿse, they’re just a two piece, and they create a hell of a racket. What they’re on about is anybody’s guess, since even untangling what they’re singing is a two-step process thanks to their bilingualism; musically speaking they’re gloriously helter-skelter, skipping between time signatures with the same casual discipline that was the hallmark of Fugazi, along with the clean tone rhythmic guitar stabs. However, this isn’t as entirely po-faced as the post-hardcore legends – there’s also a fair smattering of Drive Like Jehu’s wide-eyed madness, like on opener ‘Zebramann’ and ‘Supermacheeyeon’, which is thrillingly on the cusp of seemingly spinning out of control like Lightning Bolt often do, and indeed Dÿse do so on ‘Dysenfischdyse’.
However, no revolution is without its casualties, and sometimes their eccentricity gets the better of them: ‘Music’ adds nothing to the cause, since it’s just “music!” chanted over and over again, and ‘Baubaubau’ would be a sludgy masterpiece if it weren’t for the bird call and ‘Godfather’ style trumpet “outro” that takes up most of the song, and takes the wind out of finale ‘Hans Georg’. But these are relatively minor quibbles in what is a generally solid chunk of off-kilter post-hardcore.
Reviewed by Steve Jones
‘Leider Sind Der Brüder Der Revolution’ is out now on Exile On Mainstream
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