COUCH

ARTIST / BAND: COUCH
SONG (MP3): GEGEN ALLES BEREIT
ALBUM: Figur 5
FILE UNDER: Indie / Alternative / Electronica
LABEL: Morr Music
INFO: They may be performers, recorders and, clearly, admirers of post-rock, but the members of the German quartet Couch are surely not beholden to one of the genre's most common characteristics: the climax. Couch's stoic rock is about as likely to illicit a seven-guitar, five-violin Wagnerian flourish (a la Godspeed You! Black Emperor) as my poor reader would dare fixate on any fleeting sexual union with those chilly Canadians. Figur 5, the band's appropriately titled fifth offering, is a restrained affair that's full of post-rock's calling cards: its voiceless melodic repetition, its textural depth, its limitless tension, its graceful guitar -- but none of its bombast.

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